> Use StrutsTestCase, http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net.  
> It does the whole struts cycle and allows test of all struts 
> components.
> 
> Edgar
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: otisg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 4:51 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: Q: Running unit tests for Validator used with Struts
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > It is almost impossible to get anyone
> > attention on struts-user.
> > I'm using Struts and Validator with it.
> > I wrote a custom Validator and want to write
> > a unit test for it.
> > My Validator has a method like this:
> > 
> > public static boolean validateStartLetter(
> >     Object bean,
> >     ValidatorAction validatorAction,
> >     Field field,
> >     ActionErrors errors,
> >     HttpServletRequest request
> >     )
> > {
> >     String value =
> > ValidatorUtil.getValueAsString(bean,
> > field.getProperty());
> >     if
> > ((GenericValidator.isBlankOrNull(value)) ||
> > !Character.isLetter(value.charAt(0)))
> >     {
> >         errors.add(field.getKey(),
> > Resources.getActionError(request, validatorAction, field));
> >     }
> > 
> >     return errors.isEmpty();
> > }
> > 
> > I am running JUnit from Ant to run my unit
> > test class.
> > Apparently this doesn't work because the
> > instance of ActionErrors passed to this
> > method is null, causing a NPE.
> > 
> > I wanted to check the unit tests for
> > Validator in Struts (FieldChecks) to see how
> > you wrote your unit tests, so that this NPE
> > is avoided, but I could not find any unit
> > tests for it.
> > Are there really no unit tests there?
> > 
> > Regardless, how would you go about running
> > unit tests for a custom validator from
> > something like Ant?
> > 
> > It seems to me that doing that may be
> > impossible, because there is no Struts
> > running to instantiate ActionErrors, there
> > is no HttpServletRequest, and so on.
> > 
> > Is there a way to do this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Otis
> > 
> > 
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