Beego: how to unittest a beego app

[drmaples]

any suggestions on how to write some unit tests for the controllers?

[astaxie]

now I have no idea on the unittest. My project is do like this, all the logic i put in the model, model is base on func. so i can writer unittest base on the model. While the controller's func is hard to writer unittest

[drmaples]

thanks, that's exactly how I built my app. the controllers contain almost no logic, but it would still be nice to have some sort of way to unit test them.

[astaxie]

yeah, I was thinking about how to write a small test framework base on beego.May be when beego 1.0 release. If you have any good idea, welcome tell me

[bronze1man]

可以mock数据数据库,建立测试数据库.然后使用下面的代码做数据库mock

    db.MustSetTablesDataYaml(`
user:
  - id: 10
    name: A
  - id: 11
    name: B
friend_ref:
  - id: 1
    from_id: 10
    to_id: 11
`)

[pengfei-xue]

This can be done by using httptest.NewRecorder as beego already did in router_test.go. But you need to explicitly copy router from your
main.go to test module, as the following:

func TestPrepare(t *testing.T) {
    r, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "/json/list", nil)
    w := httptest.NewRecorder()

    handler := NewControllerRegistor()
    handler.Add("/json/list", &JsonController{})
    handler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
    if w.Body.String() != `"prepare"` {
        t.Errorf(w.Body.String() + "user define func can't run")
    }
}

[astaxie]

this is an beego sample. In the test folder show how to unit test
https://github.com/goinggo/beego-mgo