On 4 nov, 00:58, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3 nov, 22:39, Ed <post2edb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I like to know how others test their logica in complex widgets. > > > Example: I have a Form and FormField widget and the both extend from > > Composite. > > They contain logic that I would love to test in a unit test which is > > hard. > > > Of course I could split this up in a MVP pattern, but that isn't very > > elegant on widget level and too cumbersome in this case. > > > So this makes testing very hard... and it can only be done through the > > slow GWTTestCase JUnit mechanism. > > If I would have a Widget interface, I could easily mock the Form and > > FormField with a test implementation containing the logic that I want > > to test. > > > I am now considering these widgets to NOT extends from Composite > > anymore such that I can create them in a not-gwt environment and test > > them properly. > > I then let Form and FormField implement HasAWidget interface that > > contains a method Widget asWidget(), in case you want the associated > > widget from Form and FormField.. > > It's an OK solution, but still a workaround because we don't have a > > Widget interface. > > > I am suprised that not many people talk about this problem in the > > community so maybe I am just missing something :( > > I noticed this issue: 5275, that is similar: > >http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=5275 > > > How do you do this? > > See my answer in the issue tracker; in brief, move from a "Passive > View" pattern to a "Supervising Controller" pattern and you'll no > longer see "widgets" in your presenter.
Oops, sorry, I read your post too fast and missed the point: you want to test widgets, not an "MVP component". Have a look at the Cell widgets' internals, they use MVP internally so the presenter can be tested independently from the views. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
