Also, i put the test assets in the target project's directory and was
able to access them with:
getSystemContext().getAssets().list(".")
On Feb 4, 10:31 am, nate <nroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I checked my setUp() method and I do call super.setUp() as the first
> line. The reason I believe the contexts are the same are two-fold:
>
> I tried both:
>
> getSystemContext().getAssets().list(".")
> getContext().getAssets().open(".");
>
> and neither of them listed any files. The second reason is that I
> read the code for ServiceTestCase and saw that the getSystemContext()
> is just the
> same context retrieved by getContext(), but it's grabbed before any
> tests have a chance to mess with it(according to the comment in the
> code):
>
> @Override
> protected void setUp() throws Exception {
> super.setUp();
>
> // get the real context, before the individual tests have a
> chance to muck with it
> mSystemContext = getContext();
>
> }
>
> So it would seem that getting the context to the app the testcase is
> in is not possible with the ServiceTestCase, unless I am missing
> something.
>
> On Feb 3, 9:15 pm, "A. Elk" <lancaster.dambust...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > What leads you to believe that both Context objects contain the same
> > information? If you do a getSystemContext() you should get the context
> > that's stored during setUp(). The only thing that might screw this up
> > is if you overrode setUp() but forgot to call super.setUp() first.
>
> > On Feb 2, 2:08 pm, nate <nroy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hey Everyone,
> > > I don't know if I am doing something wrong here, but when I am
> > > trying to use the ServiceTestCase class to test my Service, I cannot
> > > get a context which points to the test project. getContext() and
> > > getSystemContext() both seem to point to the target project's
> > > context. The reason I need the context of my test app is that i have
> > > some assets which i need to be able to use in order to test the
> > > service in question. Does anyone know of a workaround or could point
> > > me at a way of resolving this? (i looked through the source of
> > > ServiceTestCase and didn't see another way)
>
> > > Something similar to instrumentationtestcase's
> > > getInstrumentation.getContext() is what I am looking for.
>
> > > Thanks.
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