Re: [aerogear-dev] iOS testing - HTTP mocking

Hi, I think I do prefer the approach #2 (the "mock helper" class) -M On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak(a)gmail.com&gt;wrote: > Hi team, > > for further improvements of our unit tests we have switched the http > mocking mechanism we use (our own NSURLProtocol impl) to the popular > OHHTTPStubs[1] project, a library currently recommended by the > AFNetworking networking lib we use. > > The basic mechanism is straightforward to use and encapsulated in one > method: > > return [OHHTTPStubsResponse responseWithData:data > > statusCode:status > responseTime:responseTime > headers:headers]; > > > in which a stubbed response is returned to the client. > > Now, based on this mechanism, we have abstracted a bit and created > methods such as: > > + (void)mockResponse:(NSData*)data; > + (void)mockResponseStatus:(int)status; > + (void)mockResponseTimeout:(NSData*)data status:(int)status responseTime:(NSTimeInterval)responseTime; > > This gives the advantages that a) clearly indicate what http scenario we > are testing and b) remove params that don't make sense for the particular > scenario under testing e.g. that is we simulate a status of (404) but we > need to pass all params eg. data, interval, timeout, etc. But this doesn't > limit us, we can do that if we want and use the full blown method with all > the params attached. > > I have created two branches in my fork, one that uses a blocks approach > inside the testing class [2] and one that the functionality is extracted in > a helper class that the testing classes can use [3]. The second approach > was created because there was common code and didn't want to duplicate it > over the testing classes. > > I would be interesting to know what is your comments on it? > > Thanks, > Christos > > > [1] https://github.com/AliSoftware/OHHTTPStubs > [2] > https://github.com/cvasilak/aerogear-ios/blob/ohhttpstubs/AeroGear-iOS/Ae... > [3] > https://github.com/cvasilak/aerogear-ios/blob/ohhttpstubs.helper/AeroGear... > [4] > > > > _______________________________________________ > aerogear-dev mailing list > aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf _______________________________________________ aerogear-dev mailing list aerogear-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/aerogear-dev