MVC :: Testing Routes With MvcContrib.TestHelper And MsUnit?
May 8, 2010
I'm trying to get my route tests going using MvcContrib.TestHelper and MsUnit. This is what I got: (Pretty much straight out of MVC 2 in Action, Chapter 26, Testing Practices. Just I *have* to use msUnit, while the book use nUnit)
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However I get an error saying : MvcContribTestHelperSandbox.Tests.Controllers.RouteTests.Setup has wrong signature. The method should be marked .. [rest is just cut off...not nice!) When I tried runnig it without the setup, I get some error complaining about a wrong version of Rhino Mocks, which I'm not even using! (Intend to add a reference to Moq.dll when I need to do mocking)
I'm attempting to write a unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC 2 post action that takes a view model as its sole parameter. The view model is decorated with validation attributes such as [Required]. I'd like to test two scenarios. The first scenario is when a valid set of data is passed in (ie, all required properties have values) and a redirect to the list page is returned. The second scenario involves passing in invalid data (eg, when one or more of the Required properties are not set). In this case the same view is returned with error messages.The action signature is as follows:
[HttpPost] public virtual ActionResult Create(NewsViewModel model)
The NewsViewModel class is as follows:
public class NewsViewModel { public Guid Id { get; set; }
In my Asp.net MVC app, I have two methods on a controller, one for when the user first arrives on the view and then one when they submit the form on said view.
public ActionResult Foo() {} [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Post)] public ActionResult Foo(string id, Account accountToFoo) {}
In the second action, there's a custom model binder that's assembling the account object that I'm acting on, though that's really not important. This all works fine in testing locally on a server.We try to be pretty good about writing unit tests to test all our different views are properly getting routed to, including those that are HTTP POST. To do so, we've been using mvccontrib's test helper.
My question is in testing POST routes, how do I write the lambda that I would use to verify the post is receiving accurate values, similar to the GET test above?
It's the something_something portion of my lambda that I'm having trouble with. Using arbitrary values doesn't work ("a => a.Foo(0, new Account()"). How would I specify the expected values as part of the test?EDIT I was hoping there was something akin to the way Moq has lambdas for statements such as foo.Setup(s => s.Foo(It.IsAny(), It.Is(i => i > 32)) and so on. Even I have to explicitly supply the values, that's workable--I just can't seem to grok the desired structure to pass those explicit values.
Recently for a class to implement unit test for one of its private methods I used PrivateObject by creating private accessor instead of refelection, to which i received a code review comment as below
"My main concern with Private Object is the use of object[] in constructor. It replaces strong typing enforced by compiler with JavaScript-style run-time error detection.Consequently , personally, I would not recommend it."
Comments above confused me beacuse as per my understanding reflection also needs the object[] to invoke any method.
am working as a web developer in a company. I am not aware of anything related to testing. Our company is planning to buy some testing softwares. Presently we are working on ASP.NET. We will be working on PHP and JAVA in future. I need your help to find out the best but cost effective testing sofwares.on TFS and Visual Studio Testing tool.
I am trying to create an Area for running DynamicData with scaffolding as an administration part. It's probably working as it should but I can't get the routing to work.
In my global.asax I have the following function to register the routes:
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Unfortunately the "best" thing that happened to me so far was that when I check the default tables I get a message about (MetaModel.VisibleTables)
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The problem is that I don't know why this is. Is it the routing or something else? Is it perhaps some security thing or can I not put dynamic data inside an area?
The DynamicData folder itself is located in the root of the application since that is the convention it uses and I have no intention to override that.
I'm currently building a .net web application that uses WCF web services to allow a Flex front end to access the database.
I'm in the process of setting up some unit/integration style testing on the web services and am trying to work out the best way to allow the tests to access and modify data in a separate test database.
Currently, the connection string in my unit test project points to my testing database, and the connection string in my web services project points to my development database. However, as I am using Linq it appears that when I call the web service methods from my test class, it uses the development database connection string. I have looked into creating mock objects or in-memory database but I believe the same issue would occur.
Is there a way to get this to work, or is my entire idea about what I want incorrect, in which case is there a better way to set this up?
Has any one ever downloaded and made use of the mvcContrib template gallery for asp.net mvc. I cant find where to download the templates from and there is no documentation for how to use it?
public static MenuItem MainMenu(UrlHelper url) { Menu.DefaultIconDirectory = url.Content("~/Public/Images/"); Menu.DefaultDisabledClass = "disabled"; Menu.DefaultSelectedClass = "current"; return Menu.Begin( Menu.Items("", Menu.Action<HomeController>(p => p.Index(), "Home") ), Menu.Items("", Menu.Secure<HomeController>(p => p.About(), "About") ), Menu.Items("", Menu.Action<RegulationController>(p => p.Index(null), "Compliance") )/* This is in the Compliance area */ ).SetListClass("menu"); }
But I am also using MvcContib Areas and in the code above the final menu item is in an 'Area' called 'Compliance'.
(There are two other areas in the Mvc application and the first in the list of registered areas is called 'Legislation')
What happens is the following:
When a page is rendered (I am using the standard WebFormsViewEngine) the Urls are all rendered using the 'Legislation' area!!?
E.g. http://localhost:1337/Legislation/Home or http://localhost:1337/Legislation/Home/About
and finally http://localhost:1337/Legislation/Regulation
The first two links should not pick up the 'Legislation' area. The last menu item should be in the 'Compliance' area.
How do I prevent the erroneous Area (Legislation) being rendered on the first two links?
How do I get the MenuBuilder markup in the Site.Master to accept an 'area' attribute or get it picked up automatically from the Controller for each link?
I am using MVCcontrib grid in my application. Everything works fine on my dev machine. When I publish it to the server and navigate to the page that renders the grid I am getting this error Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file.
Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Web.AspNetHostingPermission, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed. and the source of the error is shown as <%= Html.Grid(Model).Columns(column => {i have added
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to the web.config but still get the error
I have been chasing this erorr all day and coming up blank. I created a stored proceudre(fairly complicated logic), added it to the context, and set the return type to a specific entity type.
I call it from my service with the following method:
public ISingleResult<ServiceTemplate> GetByFkId(int FkId) { return Db.usp_ServiceTemplateSelectByFkId(FkId); }
I have tested the stored procedure and it returns the results I want. When I make the service call from the controller, it doesn't error out, however, it should return 4 records in this instance and instead, it returns the same 4 records (repeating the first record 4 times). .........
In My project i want to use the mvccontrib [URL] to auto generate grid by passing the DataTable to the Grid. Currently Grid does not support this. Grid takes IEnumerable(Of T) and auto generate columns. Is their any way i can achieve this by passing DataTable. Or How do i convert the DataTable to IEnumerable(Of T). My DataTable is completely Dynamic i don't know number of columns or names of the columns at design time. DataTable completely dynamic number of columns are not fixed it just any DataTable. In Short i want to convert Dynamic DataTable to IEnumerable(Of T). Or Is their any better way.
1) One way i tried is using .net 4.0 Dynamic, DynamicObject and ExpandoObject I created a dynamic class as shown here [URL]. I trid passing IEnumerable(Of SampleDynamicObject) but BuildColumns() method is not able to find out the proprieties dynamically added on to it.
2) I think Second way to modify the AutoGenerateColumns() method to work with DataTable, But it looks impossible as Grid Get initialize using IEnumerable(Of T) and all the call on grid for method is using IEnumerable(Of T). So it's come down to converting DataTable to IEnumerable(Of T) and my DataTable are dynamic i don't know their structure at design time So i can't write any specific class to create a object and convert DataTable to IEnumerable(Of T).
I have been chasing this erorr all day and coming up blank. I created a stored proceudre(fairly complicated logic), added it to the context, and set the return type to a specific entity type.
It generated this:
[Function(Name="dbo.usp_ServiceTemplateSelectByFkID")] public ISingleResult<ServiceTemplate> usp_ServiceTemplateSelectByFkID([Parameter(Name="FkId", DbType="Int")] System.Nullable<int> FkId) { IExecuteResult result = this.ExecuteMethodCall(this, ((MethodInfo)(MethodInfo.GetCurrentMethod())), FkId); return ((ISingleResult<ServiceTemplate>)(result.ReturnValue)); }
I call it from my service with the following method:
public ISingleResult<ServiceTemplate> GetByFkId(int FkId) { return Db.usp_ServiceTemplateSelectByFkId(FkId); }
I have tested the stored procedure and it returns the results I want. When I make the service call from the controller, it doesn't error out, however, it should return 4 records in this instance and instead, it returns the same 4 records (repeating the first record 4 times).
In addition, in my controller code, I am using the MVCContrib ToPagedList() method which doesn't appear to work with the ISingleResult interface (forward only cursor, I'm guessing). I have attempted converting the service results to IQuery, List, and Array, however, I still have the problem with the first record being repeated 4 times.
I have a server that has been using ARR 2.0 on IIS 7. I recently added MVC 2.0 to my ASP.NET site. After adding it the ARR routes return the following error: The virtual path 'null' maps to another application, which is not allowed. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.ArgumentException: The virtual path 'null' maps to another application, which is not allowed. Source Error:
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Stack Trace:
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In my web.config I can remove the modules attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests and the ARR works, but it makes the MVC routes stop working.
I created an MVC 2 RTM Project and created 2 Areas (Admin and Applicants) The code belows was added into the global.asax: AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas(); I also ensured that duplicate Controllers were managed as i have a homecontroller in the root and the Admin Area. The code used was; new string [] {"MyAppName.Controllers"} This too went into the global.asax The error i got is below; A route named 'Applicants_default is already in the route collection. Route names must be unique. Parameter name: name how to resolve this?
I am having an issue with MVC-3 generating outgoing routes for me. This is the address of the page I am on for both scenarios: [URL] Here are the map routes:
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Scenario 1: From the controller: [Code].... From the view: [Code]....
The resulting link that gets created. [URL] If I change the controller code to read as follows:
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I didn't make any changes in the view, only added those two lines to the controller and the following link is created: [URL] What am I missing here? This is consistent behavior, I was able to reproduce this in other areas of my application.
I am trying to set up dynamic routes in an MVC app, and I have this so far...
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And that is working great for now, the only issue I am having is that I would like to have the ability to specify a comma delimited list of optional arguments in the database that I could pull out like...
I understand the basics of setting up routes, I am trying to get a handle on how to organize more complex routes. Does the Route name do anything? I havn't seen a place it's actually used. If I have the route: controller/action/id/paramA/paramB/paramC. ParamA-C could be defining multiple parameters so First/Last/Zip or Phone/Zip/Birthday. Is it common practice to name the additional parameters with a generic name like paramA vs trying to differentiate a separate route for each?
Lastly, if you have multiple sites/functional areas in 1 site, lets say the asp.net site, each area MVC, Ajax, Forums ect were all different functional areas. Is it best to create a different group of routes such as hard coding the controller like:
MVC/action/id Ajax/action/id Forums/action/id
or is there a better way? What I am running into is 1 piece of the site overriding the other route because of the number/type of parameters.
I been looking for hours on the web to find a good tutorial where I can do a database localization with mvc 2, I can't find any its all resource files. So I'm trying to reach out to you guys and see if you got any links, books or suggestions on this topic? I would love for it to be url routes based localization but that I can figure out somehow i think.
