I found a way to invoke a task servlet using ServletUnit (but not
LocalTaskQueue.runTask(), alas) and wrote it up:

http://turbomanage.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/a-recipe-for-unit-testing-appengine-task-queues/

/dmc

On Mar 2, 11:42 pm, David Chandler <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using the workaround above and it's reading my queue.xml
> correctly; however, when I call runTask() I am getting a connection
> refused exception. Does the AppEngine test environment provide a
> servlet container or mock thereof for running the task servlet? The
> task servlet is configured in my web.xml and works fine in dev and
> prod, but not in unit tests, so I'm guessing I need to wire in a
> lightweight servlet container in test also... would appreciate any
> pointers.
>
> INFO: Local task queue initialized with base urlhttp://localhost:8080
> Mar 2, 2010 11:33:05 PM
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
> INFO: I/O exception (java.net.ConnectException) caught when processing
> request: Connection refused: connect
> Mar 2, 2010 11:33:05 PM
> org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
> INFO: Retrying request
>
> Thank you,
> /dmc
>
> On Feb 16, 6:08 pm, "Max Ross (Google)" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry Will, we look for ./WEB-INF/queue.xml by default.  Anyway glad you got
> > it working with the workaround.  I'll get this straightened out for the next
> > release.
>
> > Max
>
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:41AM, Will Bunker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I put in queue.xml in the test directory and it didn't seem to find
> > > it.
>
> > > On Feb 16, 10:47am, "Max Ross (Google)" 
> > > <[email protected]<maxr%[email protected]>
>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I see.  In the test environment it looks in "." by default so if you
> > > place
> > > > queue.xml in the directory from which you're executing the test it 
> > > > should
> > > > pick it up.I
>
> > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:35AM, Will Bunker <[email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > I am saying that it is not reading queue.xml.  I am testing to make
> > > > > sure a certain function puts "x" number tasks in a queue that is not
> > > > > the default.  It doesn't load the queue.xml file unless I use your
> > > > > workaround (then it works great.)
>
> > > > > On Feb 16, 10:21am, "Max Ross (Google)" 
> > > > > <[email protected]<maxr%[email protected]>
> > > <maxr%[email protected] <maxr%[email protected]>>
>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > By default the LocalTaskQueueTestConfig configures the local task
> > > queue
> > > > > > service to not automatically execute tasks:
> > > > >http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/localunittesting/jav.
> > > ..
>
> > > > > > Or are you saying it's not reading queue.xml?
>
> > > > > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:16AM, Will Bunker <[email protected]>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > Actually it doesn't seem to be reading the queue at all.  It is
> > > coming
> > > > > > > from the standard directory in WAR, but doesn't seem to pick it 
> > > > > > > up.
> > >  I
> > > > > > > am on Mac OS if that makes any difference.
>
> > > > > > > On Feb 16, 9:35am, "Max Ross (Google)" 
> > > > > > > <[email protected]<maxr%[email protected]>
> > > <maxr%[email protected] <maxr%[email protected]>>
> > > > > <maxr%[email protected] <maxr%[email protected]> <
> > > maxr%[email protected] <maxr%[email protected]>>>
>
> > > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > > Hi Will,
>
> > > > > > > > You're loading queue.xml from a different location in your unit
> > > > > tests?
> > > > > > >  This
> > > > > > > > is a use case I didn't thoroughly consider.  I can certainly fix
> > > this
> > > > > for
> > > > > > > > the next release but let me see if I can find a workaround for
> > > you.
>
> > > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > > Max
>
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