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Updated: Mocking Hibernate Create Criteria in Grails’ Unit Test with GMock

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Using the GMock Library I have updated my unit tests to mock out the create criteria methods the following way: 

void testSomeFunction() {
    def results = []

    def mockCriteria = mock() {
      list(instanceOf(Closure)).returns(results)
    }

    mock(Book).static.createCriteria().returns(mockCriteria)

    play {
      assertEquals null, bookService.getDefaultBook(null)
    }
  }

You need to add the following to the top of the unit test file with the import statements:

import org.gmock.*
import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*

@WithGMock

Also add the following to your BuildConfig.groovy:

dependencies {
    test "org.gmock:gmock:0.8.0"
    test "org.hamcrest:hamcrest-all:1.0"
}

I learned this from the following blog post: http://adhockery.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-gmock-to-complement-grails.html

Using Grails’ mockParams with Associations

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If you have a class Book which contains a list of authors and would like to test this functionality in your Controller’s unit tests. This is how you would do it, using the Grails mockParams.

void testSaveOfBookWithAuthor() {
 mockRequest.method = ‘POST’
 mockParams.title = “Book Title”
 mockParams[“authors”] = [[“author.id”:”123″, “author”:[“id”:”123″]]]
controller.save()
}

Mocking Hibernate Criteria in Grails App

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Testing is always a sore spot in many applications, and Grails is no exception, but mocking objects and methods is actually not as bad as you think. Here is a simple way to mock the Hibernate Criteria object that is available from Grails domain classes.

Example:
If this is the code that you want to test, and for this particular test you want to have no results, this how you would mock it out.

Code:

Test Code:

The key piece of code is the creation of the bookCriteria object, in this case it is a member of the test class that is why it is not declared locally in the function. However, you will notice that the bookCriteria is simply a HashMap that returns a empty list for the ‘list’ parameter. This way when testing ‘c.list’ a empty list will be returned. Simple hunh!