grails 2 integration test - grails

Question

I have created an Integration Test in Grails 2.x with the purpouse of testing several controllers in order to simulate a complete user flow within a Web App.
First I saved two simple domain object records, instantiating two controller instances within my test case. This two simple classes are:
- Category (category of a product) and
- Store (mini market where products are sale)
I wrote two testing methods to control the controller instances (StoreController and CategoryController) and worked fine, one category record was created and several store records as well.
Then, I wrote a third method to try to save a Product record. This record must reference a Category. So, I take the category instance from previous methods and try to pass it to the ProductController among the other Product parameters.
For an unknown reason, I'm only able to create Product records through the web app instance typing the data in the web browsers, but not by the test class code.
I think the problem issue is with the relationship between Product and Category, but I could not figured out how I should pass the parameters to the ProductController from my test case in order to create a new Product record.
This is my Product class:
class Product {
int id
String barCode
String shortDesc
String longDesc
String format
Category category
static belongsTo = [category: Category]
//static hasManySurveyRecord = [surveyRecord: SurveyRecord]
static constraints = {
id editable: false
barCode blank: false, nullable: false, maxSize: 64
shortDesc blank: false, nullable: false, maxSize: 32
longDesc blank: false, nullable: false, maxSize: 128
category blank: false
}
static mapping = {
table 'product_catalog'
version false
columns {
id column: 'id'
barCode column: 'bar_code'
shorDesc column: 'short_desc'
longDesc column: 'long_desc'
format column: 'format'
}
}
String toString() {
return longDesc
}
}
This is my Category class:
class Category {
int id
String description
static hasManyProduct = [products: Product]
static constraints = {
id editable: false
description blank: false, nullable: false, maxSize: 64
}
static mapping = {
table 'categories'
version false
columns {
id column: 'id'
description column: 'description'
}
}
String toString() {
return description
}
}
This is my integration test for this app:
static transactional = false
static storeList = []
static storesData = []
static categoryIns
static categoryData = []
static productIns = new Product()
static productData = []
#Before
void setup() {
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260001, address: "first test avenue, first city, CA" , description: "first testing store"])
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260002, address: "second test avenue, second city, CA" , description: "second testing store"])
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260003, address: "third test avenue, third city, CA" , description: "third testing store"])
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260004, address: "fourth test avenue, fourth city, CA" , description: "fourth testing store"])
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260005, address: "fifth test avenue, fifth city, CA" , description: "fifth testing store"])
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260006, address: "sixth test avenue, sixth city, CA" , description: "sixth testing store"])
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260007, address: "seventh test avenue, seventh city, CA", description: "seventh testing store"])
storesData.add([zipCode: 926260008, address: "eighth test avenue, eighth city, CA" , description: "eighth testing store"])
categoryData = [description: "testing category"]
productData = [barCode: "0114B", shorDesc: "The short testing description", longDesc: "The long testing description ....", format: "1 LT"]
}
#Test
void _01__createStores() {
def storeCtl = new StoreController()
(0..7).each { i ->
def model = storeCtl.create()
assert model.storeInstance != null
storeCtl.response.reset()
storeCtl.params.putAll( storesData.get(i) )
storeCtl.save()
assert Store.count() == (i+1)
}
storeList.addAll( Store.list() )
assert storeList.size() == Store.list().size()
}
#Test
void _02__createCategory() {
// Test if there is a previous store list created
assert storeList.size() == Store.list().size()
def categoryCtl = new CategoryController()
def model = categoryCtl.create()
assert model.categoryInstance != null
categoryCtl.response.reset()
categoryCtl.params.putAll( categoryData )
categoryCtl.save()
assert Category.count() == 1
categoryIns = Category.list()[0]
}
#Test
void _03__createProduct() {
// Test if there is a previous store list created
assert storeList.size() == Store.list().size()
// Test if there is a previous category created
assert categoryIns != null
assert categoryIns.id > 0
def productCtl = new ProductController()
def model = productCtl.create()
assert model.productInstance != null
productCtl.response.reset()
productData.put("category", [id: categoryIns.id])
productData.put("category.id", categoryIns.id)
productCtl.params.putAll( productData )
//productCtl.params.category = Category.get(categoryIns.id)
productCtl.save()
assert Product.count() == 1
}
This is my ProductController code extract:
def save() {
def productInstance = new Product(params)
if (!productInstance.save(flush: true)) {
render(view: "create", model: [productInstance: productInstance])
return
}
flash.message = message(code: 'default.created.message', args: [message(code: 'product.label', default: 'Product'), productInstance.id])
redirect(action: "show", id: productInstance.id)
}

Answer 1

Both recomendations worked fine. After hours and hours trying to figure out what were going wrong, thanks to you I saw clear my silly silly mistake: a field "shortDesc" was misspelled as "shorDesc".
So, one little tip to my book has been written.
Thank you very much!