Testing Form posts through MockMVC

Question

I\'m writing tests to verify that I can do a generic form post to our API.

I\'ve also added quite some debugging, but I noticed that the data posted by an actual for

Answer 1

You could also use this small library I created: https://github.com/f-lopes/spring-mvc-test-utils/.

Add dependency in pom.xml:

    io.florianlopes
    spring-mvc-test-utils
    1.0.1
    test

Use it with MockMvc:

mockMvc.perform(MockMvcRequestBuilderUtils.postForm("/users", new AddUserForm("John", "Doe", null, new Address(1, "Street", 5222, "New York"))))
    .andExpect(MockMvcResultMatchers.status().isFound())
    .andExpect(MockMvcResultMatchers.redirectedUrl("/users"))
    .andExpect(MockMvcResultMatchers.flash().attribute("message", "success"));

This library simply adds the parameters to the MockMvc request, according to the form object.

Here is a detailed tutorial I wrote: https://blog.florianlopes.io/tool-for-spring-mockmvcrequestbuilder-forms-tests/