Hi Folks, This is my first post to user@struts.apache.org. I yesterday posed this same question on stackoverflow but haven't garnered any responses so I figured I'd give this list a try. Hope that's cool.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5823709/npe-in-strutstestcase-after-enabling-tiles <begin question> I developed some JUnit tests that extend org.apache.struts2.StrutsTestCase. I used the tutorial (http://struts.apache.org/2.x/struts-2-junit-plugin-tutorial.html) on struts.apache.org as my starting point. Everything was working fine until I modified my simple web application to use Tiles. I have Tiles working fine in the app but now my Struts Action test cases have stopped working. I'm getting NullPointerException at org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult.doExecute when I run the following line of code: ActionProxy proxy = getActionProxy("/displaytag.action"); The log shows the Struts 2 Action is executing succesfully until it tries to hand it off to TilesResult.doExecute. I suspect it is because the tests run outside of the container and the tiles.xml is only referenced in the web.xml and therefore my StrutsTestCase tests don't know where to find the definitions in tiles.xml. Is this making sense? I'm using Struts 2.2.1.1 and the tiles related jars (v. 2.0.6) included in the Struts distribution. I'll include a code snippet from my StrutsTestCase but please note everything runs successfully when I run the app from the browser in Tomcat, it only fails when I run the StrutsTestCase outside of Tomcat. And the test cases ran successfully before I added Tiles. public class TagActionTest extends StrutsTestCase { static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(TagActionTest.class); public void testCreateTagFail() throws Exception { try { request.setParameter("name", ""); ActionProxy proxy = getActionProxy("/createtag.action"); TagAction tagAction = (TagAction) proxy.getAction(); proxy.execute(); assertTrue("Problem There were no errors present in fieldErrors but there should have been one error present", tagAction.getFieldErrors().size() == 1); assertTrue("Problem field 'name' not present in fieldErrors but it should have been", tagAction.getFieldErrors().containsKey("name") ); } catch (Exception e) { logger.debug("Error running testCreateTagFail()"); e.printStackTrace(); assertTrue("Error running testCreateTagFail()", false); } } Partial stack trace: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.struts2.views.tiles.TilesResult.doExecute(TilesResult.java:105) at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.StrutsResultSupport.execute(StrutsResultSupport.java:186) at com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultActionInvocation.executeResult(DefaultActionInvocation.java:373) Lastly, can anyone explain what the deal is with StrutsTestCase? There's a tutorial page for using it with Struts 2 on struts.apache.org but the SourceForge page (http://strutstestcase.sourceforge.net/) for it hasn't been updated since Struts 1.3 Also, what's the difference between StrutsTestCase and MockStrutsTestCase </end question> -- Regards, Justin Robbins --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
