Hi Alex,

Thanks for your valuable input. I'll take a look at Mockito. 

Kind regards,
Chris

On Sunday, August 19, 2012 7:43:34 PM UTC+2, alex wrote:
>
> I never used Jersey but what we're doing in this kind of testing is simply 
> mocking (HttpServletRequest)request.getInputStream() and a couple other 
> methods  so that they would operate on payloads provided within the unit 
> tests or files on a disk, and (mocked) Response would write to a string 
> (instead of real HTTP communication). 
>
> Nice thing about this is the tests are run really fast as no external 
> processes (e.g. dev server) are launched during testing. Plus, Testbed is 
> always available  in case there's a need to check some internal states. 
> Also, the only external lib dependency (testing-wise) with which we mock 
> classes like HttpServletResponse is Mockito.
>
>
> On Sunday, August 19, 2012 2:54:40 PM UTC+2, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently developing an application in Java and want to use 
>> AppEngine. My setup uses Jersey JSON/REST to exchange data between the 
>> client and the server.
>>
>> I would like to do following in the development mode with JUnit:
>> * Start AppEngine
>> * Execute Tests
>> * Stop AppEngine
>>
>> I have had two threads open on Stackoverflow. First thread was how I can 
>> start AppEngine over Junit without spawning threads so that I can test my 
>> REST resources. I have been told that this is an integration test and Junit 
>> can't be used for that. I should try to test by executing the methods of 
>> the resource class directly. Ok, I was thinking but it is somehow funny 
>> because when reading the Jersey docs they suggest exactly this. Starting a 
>> webserver to test the REST resources with Junit.
>>
>> I tried then to execute the methods directly and this worked at least for 
>> the getStatus() method from the Response class. But when I execute the 
>> methods directly and want to use getEntity() method of the Response class I 
>> can't marshal the object back in to the entity class. So this isn't working 
>> either out of some reason and I'm unable get the created record back so 
>> that I have the contents.
>>
>> Is there any best practice provided by Google to test REST interfaces in 
>> an automated manner or does anybody know how to test jersey resource 
>> classes properly (without curl on the command line)?
>>
>> Its nice that I'm doing it all wrong and that Junit has nothing to do 
>> with Integration testing but somehow I need to test my classes. It would be 
>> great if somebody could give me a hint.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>>

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