Thanks for the response. The assets that I needed for the test
project were specifically built for testing and we could not
distribute them in the assets of our app (we are keeping the app
footprint small), but the workaround I posted above worked fine to get
the assets from the test project.
On Feb 4, 5:04 pm, "A. Elk" <lancaster.dambust...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmmm.
>
> ServiceTestCase.getSystemContext() returns the context of the test
> package. ServiceTestCase.getApplication() gets the Application
> instance in use by the service under test. It's probably better to use
> that Application object to look at the assets you want.
>
> When you wrote getContext(), I didn't understand which class you were
> talking about. In a test case class, calling getContext() will usually
> default to AndroidTestCase.getContext(), which will give you the
> context of the test package. In an instrumented test case like
> ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2, you have an Instrumentation object,
> so you can call getTargetContext() on that object to get the context
> of the instrumented component under test.
>
> To come back to the original problem, which assets do you need to use?
> Could you build them into your test package as well as the application
> under test, instead of trying to get them from the app on the fly?
>
> On Feb 4, 11:20 am, nate <nat...@cisco.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > OK, I found a solution:
>
> > I created a context to our test package and was able to access the
> > assets:
>
> > mTestAppContext = getContext().createPackageContext("com.blah.test",
> > Context.CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
>
> > Just in case anyone else needs a workaround.
>
> > On Feb 4, 10:36 am, nate <nat...@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> > > 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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