Serializing Multipart Form requests for testing on Play 2.1

Question

I\'m working on play2.1 writing a test for a post controller that uses multipart forms using the route function.

route(
  FakeRequest(POST,
    postControllerRou         


        

Answer 1

If you don't want to skip route, you need a Writeable[AnyContentAsMultipartFormData], which turns MultipartFormData[TemporaryFile] into Array[Byte].

There's a Writeable[AnyContentAsMultipartFormData] here: http://tech.fongmun.com/post/125479939452/test-multipartformdata-in-play

Answer 2

• You have two options, searializing MultiPartFormData which is (as far as I can tell) quite tricky to do. This post might help: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/play-framework/MPtQlX-cWMQ
• You can skip going though the route method. If you want to test the Action in your controller, you can simply bypass the route. See Testing your Controllers in the documentation. If you do not go through the router, you don't need to supply a Writable. It is rarely needed to go through the router which essentially let's you first write it as bytes (using Writer) and then (using the body parser) convert it back to something Play understands.