Testing for custom plugin portlet: BeanLocatorException and Transaction roll-back for services testing

Question

My Problems:

1. I can test successfully for CRUD services operation. I was doing an insert on @Before [setUp()] and delete of same data on @Aft

Answer 1

Speculation: do you really need to test the transaction? Or just the business logic around the db access? Because if so, you could try writing the unit test with EasyMock (or similar), avoiding the access to the database yet testing the functionality

Answer 2

I use for JUnit testing mockito framework and inject the services over PortalBeanLocatorUtil.setBeanLocator(...)-methode. I think that is clearly as to do this with spring configuration. Here you have full example how it can be used. The example is shot and that is good so, because the approach is simple and understandable.

package mst.unittest.example;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.liferay.portal.kernel.bean.BeanLocator;
import com.liferay.portal.kernel.bean.PortalBeanLocatorUtil;
import com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.PortalException;
import com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException;
import com.liferay.portal.model.User;
import com.liferay.portal.service.UserLocalService;
import com.liferay.portal.service.UserLocalServiceUtil;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

/**
 * @author mark.stein.ms@gmail.com
 */
public class MyUserUtilTest {


    private BeanLocator mockBeanLocator;

    @Before
    public void init()  {
        //create mock for BeanLocator, BeanLocator is responsible for loading of Services
        mockBeanLocator = mock(BeanLocator.class);
        //... and insert it in Liferay loading infrastructure (instead of Spring configuration)
        PortalBeanLocatorUtil.setBeanLocator(mockBeanLocator);
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsUserFullAge() throws PortalException, SystemException, ParseException {
        //setup
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy_MM_dd");
        Date D2000_01_01 = format.parse("2000_01_01");
        Date D1990_06_30 = format.parse("1990_06_30");
        UserLocalService mockUserLocalService = mock(UserLocalService.class);
        User mockUserThatIsFullAge = mock(User.class);
        when(mockUserThatIsFullAge.getBirthday()).thenReturn(D1990_06_30);
        User mockUserThatIsNotFullAge = mock(User.class);
        when(mockUserThatIsNotFullAge.getBirthday()).thenReturn(D2000_01_01);
        //overwrite getUser(...) methode so that wir get mock user-object with mocked behavior
        when(mockUserLocalService.getUser(1234567)).thenReturn(mockUserThatIsFullAge);
        when(mockUserLocalService.getUser(7654321)).thenReturn(mockUserThatIsNotFullAge);

        //load our mock-object instead of default UserLocalService
        when(mockBeanLocator.locate("com.liferay.portal.service.UserLocalService")).thenReturn(mockUserLocalService);


        //run
        User userFullAge = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(1234567);
        boolean fullAge = MyUserUtil.isUserFullAge(userFullAge);

        //verify
        assertTrue(fullAge);

        //run
        User userNotFullAge = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(7654321);
        boolean notfullAge = MyUserUtil.isUserFullAge(userNotFullAge);

        //verify
        assertFalse(notfullAge);
    }

}

class MyUserUtil {

    public static boolean isUserFullAge(User user) throws PortalException, SystemException {
        Date birthday = user.getBirthday();
        long years = (System.currentTimeMillis() - birthday.getTime()) / ((long)365*24*60*60*1000);
        return years > 18;
    }

}

You can use this approach also without mockito framework, then you must create the mock-classes like MockBeanLocator manually.

Approach with PowerMock

With PowerMock you can to abdicate BeanLocator because PowerMock allows to override static methods. Here the same example with PowerMock:

package mst.unittest.example;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.powermock.api.mockito.PowerMockito;
import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.powermock.modules.junit4.PowerMockRunner;

import com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.PortalException;
import com.liferay.portal.kernel.exception.SystemException;
import com.liferay.portal.model.User;
import com.liferay.portal.service.UserLocalServiceUtil;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;

/**
 * @author Mark Stein
 *
 */

@RunWith(PowerMockRunner.class)
@PrepareForTest(UserLocalServiceUtil.class)
public class LiferayAndPowerMockTest {

    @Test
    public void testIsUserFullAge() throws PortalException, SystemException, ParseException {
        //setup
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy_MM_dd");
        Date D2000_01_01 = format.parse("2000_01_01");
        Date D1990_06_30 = format.parse("1990_06_30");
        User mockUserThatIsFullAge = mock(User.class);
        when(mockUserThatIsFullAge.getBirthday()).thenReturn(D1990_06_30);
        User mockUserThatIsNotFullAge = mock(User.class);
        when(mockUserThatIsNotFullAge.getBirthday()).thenReturn(D2000_01_01);

        //overwrite getUser(...) by UserLocalServiceUtil  methode so that wir get mock user-object with mocked behavior
        PowerMockito.mockStatic(UserLocalServiceUtil.class);
        when(UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(1234567)).thenReturn(mockUserThatIsFullAge);
        when(UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(7654321)).thenReturn(mockUserThatIsNotFullAge);

        //run
        boolean fullAge = MySecUserUtil.isUserFullAge(1234567);

        //verify
        assertTrue(fullAge);

        //run

        boolean notfullAge = MySecUserUtil.isUserFullAge(7654321);

        //verify
        assertFalse(notfullAge);
    }

}

class MySecUserUtil {

    public static boolean isUserFullAge(long userId) throws PortalException, SystemException {
        User user = UserLocalServiceUtil.getUser(userId);
        Date birthday = user.getBirthday();
        long years = (System.currentTimeMillis() - birthday.getTime()) / ((long)365*24*60*60*1000);
        return years > 18;
    }

}

Here you found PowerMock 1.4.12 with Mockito and JUnit including dependencies http://code.google.com/p/powermock/downloads/detail?name=powermock-mockito-junit-1.4.12.zip&can=2&q=