HttpUnit- Installation

[Arundhathi Menon]

Hello !

Have been asked to use HttpUnit to test our web application...I downloaded the src files from the HttpUnit site along with the jars....
But compiling the files was a sticky job.....
Could we not possibly get the entire com.meterware.HttpUnit as well as the other package class files ?
Please help.
regards
Menon

[Lasse Koskela]

Where exactly did you download the package? At least for me, the download link at httpunit.sourceforge.net points to the binary distribution.

[Arundhathi Menon]

I manage to dowload the zip file that contains only the jars as well as the core java files..

[Lasse Koskela]

You don't need any .class files -- the .jar files are everything you need.

In order to use HttpUnit, the only thing you need to do is:
1) download httpunit-x.y.zip
2) unzip the archive somewhere
3) add all the .jar files from the archive into your project's classpath
4) write tests that use the com.meterware.httpunit.* classes

Here's an example HttpUnit test I wrote for a training class I ran some time ago:

import java.util.*;
import junit.framework.*;
import com.meterware.httpunit.*;
 
public class TestGoogleSearchWithHttpUnit extends TestCase {
 
    private WebResponse frontPage;
 
    protected void setUp() throws Exception {
        WebConversation conversation = new WebConversation();
        WebRequest request = new GetMethodWebRequest("http://www.google.com");
        frontPage = conversation.getResponse(request);
    }
 
    public void testFrontPageHasCorrectTitle() throws Exception {
        assertEquals("Google", frontPage.getTitle());
    }
 
    public void testFrontPageHasSearchForm() throws Exception {
        WebForm searchForm = frontPage.getFormWithName("f");
        assertNotNull(searchForm);
        assertArrayContains("q", searchForm.getParameterNames());
        assertArrayContains("btnG", searchForm.getParameterNames());
    }
 
    public void testSearchForJavaRanchFindsJavaRanchDotCom() throws Exception {
        WebForm searchForm = frontPage.getFormWithName("f");
        searchForm.setParameter("q", "JavaRanch");
        SubmitButton submitButton = getButtonWithName(searchForm, "btnG");
        WebResponse searchResults = searchForm.submit(submitButton);
        WebLink[] links = searchResults.getLinks();
        Set linkUrls = new HashSet();
        for (int i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {
            linkUrls.add(links[i].getURLString());
        }
        assertTrue(linkUrls.contains("http://www.javaranch.com/"));
    }
 
    public void testSearchResultsPageRemembersQuery() throws Exception {
        WebForm searchForm = frontPage.getFormWithName("f");
        searchForm.setParameter("q", "JavaRanch");
        SubmitButton submitButton = getButtonWithName(searchForm, "btnG");
        WebResponse searchResults = searchForm.submit(submitButton);
        searchForm = searchResults.getFormWithName("gs");
        assertEquals("JavaRanch", searchForm.getParameterValue("q"));
    }
 
    // helper methods:
 
    private SubmitButton getButtonWithName(WebForm form, String name) {
        SubmitButton[] buttons = form.getSubmitButtons();
        for (int i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
            if (buttons[i].getName().equals(name)) {
                return buttons[i];
            }
        }
        return null;
 
    }
 
    protected void assertArrayContains(Object expectedValue, Object[] array) {
        for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
            if (array[i].equals(expectedValue)) {
                return;
            }
        }
        throw new AssertionFailedError("<" + expectedValue + "> not found in <"
                + arrayToString(array) + ">");
    }
 
    private String arrayToString(Object[] array) {
        StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer();
        s.append("[");
        for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
            if (i != 0) {
                s.append(", ");
            }
            s.append(array[i]);
        }
        s.append("]");
        return s.toString();
    }
 
}