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Mellon
Mellon

Reputation: 38842

onStartCommand() isn't called when start service in my test case

I have a test project, my simple test case extends AndroidTestCase class :

public class MyTest extends AndroidTestCase{
    private Context mContext;

    public MyTest(){
        super();
    }

    @Override
    public void setUp() throws Exception {
           super.setUp();
           mContext = getContext();

           //Start my service
           mContext.startService(new Intent(mContext, MyService.class));
     }

    @Override
    protected void runTest() {
       ...
    }
     ...
}

In setUp() callback of my above test case, I started MyService.

MyService has also been declared in AndroidManifest.xml of my test project:

 <service
      android:name="com.my.app.services.MyService"/>

MyService.java :

public class MyService extends Service {
   @Override
   public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    Log.d("MyService", "onCreate()");
    } 

   @Override
   public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
    super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    Log.d("MyService", "onStartCommand");
   }
   ...
}

But after I run my test case, I noticed from log that neither onCreate() nor onStartCommand() callbacks of MyService have been called. Why? Is there any special rule applied to Service usage in Android Test Framework which I missed?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1618

Answers (3)

Andy Newman
Andy Newman

Reputation: 1208

I have been having the same problem, I think. I am trying to test code which calls startService, not test the service itself, so I created a new service for testing purposes.

It appears that test cases can start services, but the services have to be part of the main project being tested, they can't be part of the test project. I don't really like having a test only class in my project, but since it seems to be the only way ...

Upvotes: 0

Pratik Dasa
Pratik Dasa

Reputation: 7439

If you want to wowk with service then use ServicetestCase.

Upvotes: 0

FunkTheMonk
FunkTheMonk

Reputation: 10938

The context returned by AndroidTestCase is probably a mocked context - it probably has no implementation for startService. Have you read http://developer.android.com/tools/testing/service_testing.html ?

Upvotes: 1

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