RE: Access to HttpServletRequest.getInputStream() in Cactus

[Jerome Banks]

Title: Access to HttpServletRequest.getInputStream() in Cactus

Vincent,    I may be able to work on it , and send you a patch, if you point    me in the right direction. Otherwise  we can't really use Cactus.    What general area would the change be in ???     --- jerome -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Massol [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Access to HttpServletRequest.getInputStream() in Cactus Hi Jerome, ----- Original Message ----- From: Jerome Banks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: Access to HttpServletRequest.getInputStream() in Cactus   Folks,    I'm trying to unit test a Servlet which reads XML messages via an HTTP POST   and sends back an XML message in the response. The Servlet reads in the    XML via the HttpServletRequest.getInputStream(). Is there anyway to "push"    data into this InputStream from Cactus ( perhaps setting a String buffer ???) In the current version, no. I have a todo task (http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cactus/todo.html) for offering an API to end user to be able to get the servlet input stream. So far, only one person asked for it (which is why I added it to the todo list) and I have not had the time to implement it, although it should be quite simple to do. If you have some time, please take a stab at it. Otherwise, I'll try to do it asap but I can't guarantee when ... :) (I'm doing this on my free time). If others want to help ... :)    Also, I don't quite understand why Cactus needs to be run inside a WebServer like    Tomcat. Why can't one create concrete representations of HttpServletRequest and   HttpServletResponse, and use that ??? Am I missing something ??? It's actually a very interesting question. Craig gave you the main answer in a follow-up post. Yesterday, I went to the XtC (eXtreme Tuesday Club, in London) - check www.xpdeveloper.com - and had a very interesting discussion on mock objects vs in container testing. The conclusion was that I actually liked some of their ideas and I will find some time to look at how they do it. There are pros and cons of both. Here is my plan : - look at it next weekend and come up with an article that I'll put on the Cactus web site that discusses the pros and cons of each method. I'll also try to come up with an example of how to implement some test case in both strategies.  thanks in advance ...    --- jerome Thanks Vincent.