To test flash message, check session:
$this->assertEqual($this->TestController->Session->read('Message.flash.message'),
__('Saved.'));
On Sunday, March 11, 2012 10:13:10 PM UTC+1, andrewperk wrote:
>
> In case someone finds this post later, I found an easier way to test html
> tags rather than using assertTags from the view by using assertRegExp or
> assertPattern:
>
> $result = $this->testAction('url', array('return'=>'view'));
> $this->assertRegExp('/<input name="data\[Model\]\[field\]"/', $result);
>
> Just remember the pattern passed in as the first param if it uses any
> brackets like the data[Model][field] does you need to escape them first
> otherwise it picks it up as a delimiter.
>
> I still haven't found a way to test what the setFlash messages are, only
> that the method has been called.
>
> $this->view and $this->contents are always null as well when using
> redirect.
>
> On Saturday, March 10, 2012 7:56:37 PM UTC-8, andrewperk wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a couple of questions about testing certain things:
>>
>> Flash Messages: I know how to test that the setFlash method has ran
>> using mocks, but is there a way to verify that it contains the correct
>> message?
>>
>> assertTags() Views: I use testAction to return the view then use
>> assertTags to test that the view contains certain HTML. But, Is there
>> a way to just test that the view contains only a part of the html
>> rather than having to test the whole view?
>>
>> Currently when I use assertTags I have to be exact, all the way down
>> to the attribute of the element and any nested elements. I would just
>> like to test that a view contains just a few elements on the page, not
>> every single one with all attributes as this takes forever to build
>> out this array on a complex view.
>>
>> For instance, I would just like to test that the view contains a
>> certain input with an id of post_id, but I can't do this if any html
>> comes before it, it wants me to match the entire thing.
>>
>> $result = $this->testAction('/url/page_with_form',
>> array('return'=>'view'));
>> $expected = array(
>> array('input'=>array('id'=>'post_id')),
>> );
>>
>> This will not work because I didn't include the array structure for
>> the form thats wrapped around it, if I add the entire form and all the
>> divs that the form helper generates it works just fine.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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