Posts Tagged ‘java’

EasyMock Capture Example

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Background

EasyMock version 2.4 introduced some new functionality – the ability to capture the arguments passed to mock objects. As ever a few lines of code speaks volumes.

Capture Example

Test Class

package foo.bar;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import org.easymock.Capture;
import org.easymock.EasyMock;
import org.easymock.IMocksControl;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

public class TestServiceImpl {
    private Service service;
    private Dao dao;
    private IMocksControl controller;
    private final String description = "description";

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        controller = EasyMock.createStrictControl();
        dao = controller.createMock(Dao.class);
        service = new ServiceImpl();
        service.setDao(dao);
    }
    @Test
    public void testSave() {
        Capture <DomainObject> capturedArgument = new Capture <DomainObject>();
        dao.save(EasyMock.and(EasyMock.capture(capturedArgument), EasyMock.isA(DomainObject.class)));
        controller.replay();
        service.save(description);
        controller.verify();
        DomainObject record = capturedArgument.getValue();
        assertEquals(description, record.getDescription());
        assertEquals("getNextId", record.getId());
    }
}

Source code for classes under test after the break…….
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Display Version in Android Application

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

I was looking for a way to display the Version on the splash screen of my Android app, more specifically, the “versionName” as defined in the application’s AndroidManifest.xml

After A LOT of looking I discovered PackageInfo, which is a Java API to all of the info held in the manifest.

Armed with this information is was easy to produce the following:

private void displayVersionName() {
    String versionName = "";
    PackageInfo packageInfo;
    try {
        packageInfo = getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(getPackageName(), 0);
    	versionName = "v " + packageInfo.versionName;
    } catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.versionNameTextView);
    tv.setText(versionName);
}

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Selenium Tests Randomly Failing

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

The Problem

The project I’m currently working on uses a lot of selenium tests to verify the behaviour of the web front end and, I must say, I’ve been quite impressed with it.

Yesterday however after updating my local machine with the latest copy of the project from Clearcase I noticed a lot of failing tests; the worrying (interesting?) thing though was that the failures appeared to be “random”. Tests were passing one run and failing the next, with no changes having being made in the source code and no changes in the initial starting conditions. I was starting to pull my hair out. Curiously the tests ran fine on my colleagues’ and the build machine. My workmate had a look (remember the tests ran fine for him) but he too was getting the random failures on my machine – we were both stumped.
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Using Ibatis Typehandlers to fix Oracle Date “missing time”

Friday, June 25th, 2010

The Problem

When using Ibatis to retrieve Date type values, on Oracle 10g (some driver versions), the time portion of the value returned from the database is not mapped onto the Java object.

i.e.

In DB: 02-JAN-10 13:30:00
In Java Object after mapping: 02-JAN-10 00:00:00

The Ibatis ResultMapper, snippet, looks like this:

....
<result property="savedDate" column="SAVED_DATE" javaType="java.util.Date" jdbcType="DATE"/>
....

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Unit Testing Spring apps with @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

The Problem

I love Spring, who doesn’t?

One thing however that I found, until recently, a bit awkward was Unit Testing objects which were constructed and initiated via the Spring context and injected into other objects that consumed them. I have seen and used many and varied “bespoke” ways to do this, none of which I found satisfying.

This was until a collegue introduced me to the wonder that is SpringJUnit4ClassRunner. I know, I know, I should have been aware of this ages ago but as they say on millionaire “it’s easy if you know the answer”!
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