[Webtest] calling one test from another test using Grails WebTest plugin

[David Koo]

Hi there,

I'm trying to better organize & re-use my WebTests (which I'm writing in
Groovy with support from the Grails WebTest plugin).

Currently, I'm able to to call a method in one webtest class from another
webtest class by passing the AntBuilder instance as follows:

public class MyTest extends WebTest {

    def testSomething(){

        def userTest = new UserTest()
        userTest.login(ant)
    }
}

This is fine, but my issue is in writing the login() method which currently
looks like this:

public class UserTest extends WebTest {

    def login(AntBuilder ab) {
        ab.group(description: "login") {
            ab.invoke "/path/to/something"
            ab.verifyText "some text"
            ab.invoke "/path/to/something/else"
            ab.verifyText "some other text"
            .....
        }
    }
}

My issue is that it's quite tedious to have to put "ab." in front of every
single step in my test.

I read somewhere that you didn't need to specify the AntBuilder instance
inside a group so I tried doing that as follows but I got an exception
saying it couldn't invoke my test (when calling this method from
MyTest.testSomething() above):

    def login(AntBuilder ab) {
        ab.group(description: "login") {
            invoke "/path/to/something"
            verifyText "some text"
            invoke "/path/to/something/else"
            verifyText "some other text"
        }
    }

I'm wondering if there's another way to do this? Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Dave