[Mono-list] Jakarta Struts for .net/mono

Miguel de Icaza miguel at ximian.com
Fri Dec 15 13:56:57 EST 2006


Hello,

> Unfortunately ASP.NET provides sealed HttpContext, HttpRequest, HttpResponse
> which cannot be used to write mocks for testing (I love javax.servlet).
> I considering to wrap this objects to complete Java Servlet API and use 
> this interfaces
> for whole port implementation (except httphandler which will instantiate 
> wrapped objects)
> and make port completely independent from System.Web.
> At this time I wrap HttpContext, HttpRequest, HttpResponse into custom
> classes which so close to original.
> If it sounds wild, it's possible to use asp.net HttpContext, etc..,
> but unfortunately it's a farewell to unit testing.

Not really, there is an alternative.

Context, Request and Response are just wrappers on top of the low-level
interface SimplerWorkerRequest.  

Look at how we write some of the tests in System.Web, where we basically
fake this and we have complete control of what goes over.


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