Testing Spring asyncResult() and jsonPath() together

Question

I\'m using a restful url to kick off a long-running backend process (it is normally on a cron schedule, but we want the ability to kick it off manually).

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Answer 1

I think you want to use asyncDispatch on the result of the started Async calls Reference code from link below

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.2.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/test/web/servlet/request/MockMvcRequestBuilders.html

Usage involves performing one request first that starts async processing:

 MvcResult mvcResult = this.mockMvc.perform(get("/trigger/job/xyz"))
        .andExpect(request().asyncStarted())
        .andReturn();

And then performing the async dispatch re-using the MvcResult:

 this.mockMvc.perform(asyncDispatch(mvcResult))
        .andExpect(status().isOk())
        .andExpect(content().contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON))
        .andExpect(content().string(.......));

or in your case

this.mockMvc.perform(asyncDispatch(mvcResult))
        .andExpect(status().isOk())
        .andExpect(content().contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON))
        .andExpect(jsonPath("status").value("SUCCESS"))
        .andExpect(jsonPath("message").value("A meaningful message appears"));