Jeff,
How about this: rather than calling the built-in CreateUUID(), call your own
function that will return either a hardcoded value or a real UUID, depending
on a test mode flag.
if (Request.testFlag)
return "fake UUID";
else
return CreateUUID();
For maximum verisimilitude you could return test UUIDs from out of a preset
list - not sure how sensitive your testing needs to be.
Jaime Metcher
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, 27 July 2007 3:18 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Unit Testing an XML Parsing Function
>
>
> I have a component whose init method takes the path to an xml file and
> parses the contents of that xml file into an internal data
> structure. Now I
> am trying to write the unit test for this function and I am getting stuck.
> My original attempt was to pass in a test xml file and the manually create
> the matching data structure and compare the two. The problem is,
> during the
> parsing of this xml file, the component creates and inserts several UUID
> values into the internal data structure. Obviously, I cannot magically
> generate the same UUID value when I manually create the matching data
> structure to compare against.
>
>
>
> So, does anybody have any suggestions on testing this type of
> functionality?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
>
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