Play framework 2.2.1: Create Http.Context for tests

Question

I've been trying to create an Http.Context for tests using its constructor unsuccessfully. Does anybody see what I'm doing wrong?

I've looked at the following but it only applies to Play 2.0:

Play framework 2.0: Store values in Http.Context

It looks like the class changed for 2.2.1 and it has more parameters for the constructor as shown here:

https://github.com/playframework/playframework/blob/2.1.x/framework/src/play/src/main/java/play/mvc/Http.java

This my code:

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Collections;
import org.junit.*;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.*;
import play.mvc.*;
import play.test.*;
import play.mvc.Http;
import play.mvc.Http.Context;
import play.api.mvc.RequestHeader;
import static play.test.Helpers.*;
import static org.fest.assertions.Assertions.*;


public class TemplateTests {

    public static FakeApplication app;
    private final Http.Request request = mock(Http.Request.class);

    @BeforeClass
    public static void startApp() {
        app = Helpers.fakeApplication();
        Helpers.start(app);
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
        Map<String, String> flashData = Collections.emptyMap();
        Map<String, Object> argData = Collections.emptyMap();
        Long id = 2L;
        play.api.mvc.RequestHeader header = mock(play.api.mvc.RequestHeader.class);
        Http.Context context = mock(Http.Context(id, header, request , flashData, flashData, argData));
        Http.Context.current.set(context);
    }


    @Test
    public void renderTemplate() {
        Content html = views.html.index.render();
        assertThat(contentType(html)).isEqualTo("text/html");
        assertThat(contentAsString(html)).contains("myindex");
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void stopApp() {
        Helpers.stop(app);
    }
}

This is the error that I'm seeing when running a test:

play test
[info] Loading project definition from /home/user/solr-segmentexplorer/explorer/project
[info] Set current project to explorer (in build file:/home/user/solr-segmentexplorer/explorer/)
[info] Compiling 1 Java source to /home/user/solr-segmentexplorer/explorer/target/scala-2.10/test-classes...
[error] /home/user/solr-segmentexplorer/explorer/test/TemplateTests.java:33: cannot find symbol
[error] symbol  : method Context(java.lang.Long,play.api.mvc.RequestHeader,play.mvc.Http.Request,java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>,java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>,java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object>)
[error] location: class play.mvc.Http
[error]         Http.Context context = mock(Http.Context(id, header, request , flashData, flashData, argData));
[error]                                         ^
[error] 1 error
[error] (test:compile) javac returned nonzero exit code
[error] Total time: 3 s, completed Nov 25, 2013 11:56:36 PM

Any ideas?

If I don't create a context I get:

[error] Test TemplateTests.renderTemplate failed: java.lang.RuntimeException: There is no HTTP Context available from here.

Answer 1

Looks like this seems to have fixed it for me:

@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
    Map<String, String> flashData = Collections.emptyMap();
    Map<String, Object> argData = Collections.emptyMap();
    Long id = 2L;
    play.api.mvc.RequestHeader header = mock(play.api.mvc.RequestHeader.class);
    Http.Context context = new Http.Context(id, header, request, flashData, flashData, argData);
    Http.Context.current.set(context);
}

The part that fixes it specifically is:

Http.Context.current.set(context);