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piotrek
piotrek

Reputation: 14550

spring mvc; test if redirect is relative

I want to test if my controller returns correct redirect (relative / context relative / absolute). How can I test it using spring's mockMVC? can I avoid integration tests with starting server 2 times with different contexts?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1198

Answers (1)

gerrytan
gerrytan

Reputation: 41133

If your handler methods always returns String, the redirection is always relative to current servlet context, or absolute. As specified on Chapter 17.5.3 of Spring Reference:

A logical view name such as redirect:/myapp/some/resource will redirect relative to the current Servlet context, while a name such as redirect:http://myhost.com/some/arbitrary/path will redirect to an absolute URL.

Hence in my opinion it is sufficient to test the returned String has "redirect:" prefix, and check for the "http://" or "https://" prefix.

Upvotes: 1

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