Using assets in robolectric tests

android robolectric android-testing
ankitrokdeonsns picture ankitrokdeonsns · Jul 8, 2014 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

In my robolectric tests I am trying to read a file. Since this file contains just the test data I have put it in assets of the tests.

The directory structure looks like this.
src/main/assets/prod_data_file
src/test/assets/test_data_file

However when I try to read the file by getShadowApplication().getAssets().open(MY_FILE_PATH) it gives me FileNotFoundException.

Does anybody know how to fix this?

Answer

ankitrokdeonsns picture ankitrokdeonsns · Jul 9, 2014

Since my tests are just reading these files and returning file data as a String I was able to do that via getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(MY_FILE_PATH) and then read file. Dont really need to read to use getShadowApplication().getAssets().open(MY_FILE_PATH).

I just moved my test data files to src/test/resources and it worked. :)

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