Integration test not running page action

21. Feb 2008, 17:49 CET | Link Tom Nicholls

I have a stateful Session EJB running as a Seam component in conversational scope. It's a simple registration example and when I test it in the browser everything works fine.

I have a single page action set up in pages.xml which fires a method to create a long-running conversation when the user goes to the registration page:

	<page view-id="/register.xhtml" action="#{Registration.beginRegistration}"/>

The important bits of my registration bean look like this (with some code omitted such as getters and setters):

@Stateful 
@Scope(ScopeType.CONVERSATION)
@Name("Registration")
public class Registration implements RegistrationInterface, Serializable {

    @Logger Log log;
    
    @PersistenceContext(type=PersistenceContextType.EXTENDED)
    @In EntityManager entityManager;
    
    @In(create=true, required=false, value="account")
    @Out(required=false) Account account; // the account that is going to be created by the user
    
    
    @Begin
    public void beginRegistration() {
    	log.info("beginRegistration()");
    	account = new Account();
    }
	
    
     @End
	public void register()
	 {
    	log.info("register()");
        log.info("Hello, " + account.getName());

        // details omitted
        entityManager.persist(account);
     
	 }
	


    @Remove   
    @Destroy 
    public void destroy() {}

	    
}

I've written an integration test as follows:

public class RegistrationInterfaceTest extends SeamTest {


	@Test
	public void test() throws Exception {

		new FacesRequest("/register.xhtml") {

			@Override
			protected void updateModelValues() throws Exception {				
				//set form input to model attributes
				setValue("#{account.name}", "Tom");
				setValue("#{account.email", "tom@blah.blah");
			} 
			@Override
			protected void invokeApplication() {
				//call action methods here
				invokeMethod("#{Registration.register}");
			}
			@Override
			protected void renderResponse() {
				//check model attributes if needed
				assert getValue("#{account.name}").equals("Tom");
			}
		}.run();
		
		
	}

...but it doesn't seem to fire the page action defined in pages.xml . When I go to the page in a browser I can see the method being fired.

What might I be doing wrong? Do I need to post more information? I'm fairly new to Seam and this is my first foray into using the FacesRequest class.

Thanks in advance for any help...

Tom Nicholls
Director
CodeClass Java Training
tom@codeclass.co.uk