[seam-dev] s:viewAction test failure

[Brian Leathem]

Hello all,

I've written some JSFUnit/Arquillian tests for the viewAction, currently 
targeting JBoss AS6 as a baseline.
There are two tests (available in faces/fetaure/jsfunit_arquillian branch):
     // testing the viewAction loading data into a property
     @Test
     @InitialPage("/load_data.xhtml")
     public void checkDataLoad(JSFServerSession server,
JSFClientSession client) throws IOException {
         Assert.assertEquals("/load_data.xhtml", server.getCurrentViewID());
         Assert.assertTrue(client.getPageAsText().contains("Data Loaded"));
     }

     // testing viewAction navigation
     @Test
     @InitialPage("/goto_result.xhtml")
     public void checkNavigation(JSFServerSession server,
JSFClientSession client) throws IOException {
         Assert.assertEquals("/result.xhtml", server.getCurrentViewID());
         Assert.assertTrue(client.getPageAsText().contains("Result page"));
     }

The first test works, but the second one fails with the server.log 
stacktrace:
https://gist.github.com/1078369
I verified this failure with a manually created example app (available
in faces/examples on the develop branch).

This is consistent with the behavior reported in the forums:
s:viewAction navigation is broken.  It seems to be a weld issue,
perhaps:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WELD-878
although the error message seems different.

This is an increasingly important at the moment, as the viewAction is 
being considered for inclusion in JSF 2.2.

Any thoughts on how to proceed?  It's hard to share these tests at the
moment, as they are based on a JSFUnit snapshot that one must compile
onself.  Another JSFUnit beta realease would help out here.  Also, It 
would probably help to have these tests target other containers, such as 
AS7, Glassfish 3.x - although I think JSFUnit/Arquillian has some 
compatibility issues here at the moment.

Cheers,
Brian Leathem