Hi Ken, In answer to your questions.
a. I'm new-ing the helper as I need an instance of it within the ViewComponent. I see that the CaptchaComponent from the Castle Contrib project does the same thing. http://svn.castleproject.org:8080/svn/castlecontrib/viewcomponents/trunk/Castle.MonoRail.ViewComponents/CaptchaComponent.cs. Am I doing this completely wrong? b. I don't have a propertybag at all in the test environment as I'm currently try to test a "New" action. Likewise in my Controller I don't have a PropertyBag value for the New action. The strange thing is that the ViewComponent works fine when not in the test environment. To try and make it a bit clearer what I'm trying to do please look at the viewcomponent http://membranecms.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Membrane/ViewComponents/AutomaticFormFieldGeneratorComponent.cs and it's test http://membranecms.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Membrane.Tests/Unit/Web/MonoRail/ViewComponents/AutomaticFormGeneratorComponentFixture.cs Please be gentle as this is the first time I've tried to TDD a ViewComponent :-) Thanks John On Apr 8, 10:41 am, Ken Egozi <egoz...@gmail.com> wrote: > a. why are you new-ing the helper? they are all being created anyway by the > framework. > b. it appear that the failing call is ObtainRootInstance, with the target Id > you supply to the TextField method. > is there something in the PropertyBag that corresponds to fieldId in the > test environment? > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:36 PM, johnpoll...@googlemail.com < > > > > johnpoll...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > I'm currently working on a ViewComponent however I'm struggling the > > testing side of things. > > > The ViewComponent uses the FormHelper within it. > > > formHelper = new FormHelper(EngineContext); > > > and is creating a series of TextFields dynamically > > > formHelper.TextField(fieldId) > > > This works fine when running the view. However when running the test > > which inherits from BaseViewComponentTest I'm getting the following > > error message when the formHelper.TextField(fieldId) code is run. > > > System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance > > of an object. > > at > > > Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers.AbstractFormRelatedHelper.ObtainRootInstance > > (RequestContext context, String target) > > at > > > Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers.AbstractFormRelatedHelper.ObtainRootInstance > > (RequestContext context, String target, String[]& pieces) > > at > > Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers.AbstractFormRelatedHelper.ObtainValue > > (RequestContext context, String target) > > at > > Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers.AbstractFormRelatedHelper.ObtainValue > > (String target) > > at > > Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers.AbstractFormRelatedHelper.ObtainValue > > (String target, IDictionary attributes) > > at Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers.FormHelper.TextField(String > > target, IDictionary attributes) > > at Castle.MonoRail.Framework.Helpers.FormHelper.TextField(String > > target) > > > Is there something I'm missing? I've seen this discussion about the > > lack of PropertyBaghttp://markmail.org/message/xremym6hthsudx4obut > > as I said the same code works fine when running the viewcomponent in > > the view. > > > Hope this makes sense > > > John > > -- > Ken > Egozi.http://www.kenegozi.com/bloghttp://www.delver.comhttp://www.musicglue.comhttp://www.castleproject.orghttp://www.gotfriends.co.il --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Castle Project Users" group. To post to this group, send email to castle-project-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to castle-project-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/castle-project-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
