A JCR node mocking library.
The intent of this framework is to eliminate boilerplate code for setting up JCR node structures in unit tests by writing them in an easy to read format such as JSON. For example:
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Say you're working on an application which uses a JCR repository for storing product content.
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One feature of this application may be related to building an API to search for products.
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In order to write unit tests for the JCR you'll need to setup some test data. You can do this in 2 ways:
- Use a TransientRepository and populate it with some data.
- Or you can use a mocking framework (such as mockito) to mock out the repository and the node structure.
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For this example we'll use mockito.
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Let's say that the node structure looks like the following:
/products
/awesome_shoe
- name
- description
- price
/awesome_shirt
- name
- description
- price
/awesome_jeans
- name
- description
- price
- In order to mock a structure with 1 products with 1 digital asset in the repository we'd do something like this:
Node productBaseNode = mock(Node.class);
Node awesomeShoeNode = mock(Node.class);
Node awesomeShirtNode = mock(Node.class);
Node awesomeJeansNode = mock(Node.class);
NodeIterator nodeIterator = mock(NodeIterator.class);
when(nodeIterator.hasNext()).thenReturn(true).thenReturn(true).thenReturn(true).thenReturn(false);
when(nodeIterator.nextNode())
.thenReturn(awesomeShoeNode);
.thenReturn(awesomeShirtNode);
.thenReturn(awesomeJeansNode);
when(productBaseNode.getNodes()).thenReturn(nodeIterator);
when(productBaseNode.getNode("awesome_shoe")).thenReturn(awesomeShoeNode);
when(productBaseNode.getNode("awesome_shirt")).thenReturn(awesomeShirtNode);
when(productBaseNode.getNode("awesome_jeans")).thenReturn(awesomeJeansNode);
when(awesomeShoeNode.getProperty("name")).thenReturn("Awesome Shoe");
when(awesomeShoeNode.getProperty("description")).thenReturn("Description for an awesome shoe");
when(awesomeShoeNode.getProperty("price")).thenReturn("50.00");
when(awesomeShirtNode.getProperty("name")).thenReturn("Awesome Shirt");
when(awesomeShirtNode.getProperty("description")).thenReturn("Description for an awesome shirt");
when(awesomeShirtNode.getProperty("price")).thenReturn("75.00");
when(awesomeJeansNode.getProperty("name")).thenReturn("Awesome Jeans");
when(awesomeJeansNode.getProperty("description")).thenReturn("Description for an awesome jeans");
when(awesomeJeansNode.getProperty("price")).thenReturn("175.00");
PropertyIterator propertyIterator = mock(PropertyIterator.class);
when(propertyIterator.hasNext()).thenReturn(true).thenReturn(true).thenReturn(false);
when(propertyIterator.next()).thenReturn(viewProp);
when(digitalAsset.getProperties()).thenReturn(propertyIterator);- This is a lot of code just for setting up a relatively small tree. Imagine if we'd needed to setup a much larger structure. It's just too much boilerplate code. With this framework you can achieve the same thing by doing:
String jsonNodeStructure = " { " +
"products: {" +
"awesome_shoe: {" +
"name: 'Awesome Shoe', " +
"description: 'Description for an awesome shoe', " +
"price: '50.00' " +
"},"
"awesome_shirt: {" +
"name: 'Awesome Shirt', " +
"description: 'Description for an awesome shirt', " +
"price: '75.00' " +
"},"
"awesome_jeans: {" +
"name: 'Awesome Jeans', " +
"description: 'Description for awesome jeans', " +
"price: '175.00' " +
"}"
"}" +
"}";
Node productBaseNode = JcrMockingUtils.createNodesFromJsonString(jsonNodeStructure);
- Read the Usage section for details on how to use the framework.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.tacitknowledge</groupId>
<artifactId>jcr-mock</artifactId>
<version>2.1.4</version>
<scope>test<scope>
</dependency>- Then you can use the mock service on your tests:
String myNodeStructure = "{myAsset : " +
"{ trustEntity : " +
"{" +
"nodeType: 'nt:unstructured'," +
" view:'left'," +
" binary : " +
"{ " +
"nodeType : 'nt:file'" +
"}," +
" anotherNode: " +
"{ " +
"attri: 'valueyes'" +
"} " +
"}" +
"} " +
"} ";
Node myAssetNode = JcrMockingUtils.createNodesFromJsonString(myNodeStructure);- You can also load from a json file:
InputStream assetsJsonFile = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/assets.json");
Node assetsNode = JcrMockingUtils.createNodesFromJsonFile(assetsJsonFile);- JSON Objects correspond to JCR Nodes, where the name of the node is the name of the object.
- JSON Properties correspond to JCR Properties.
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Node Types need to be explicitly declared via the jcr:primaryType property.
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JSON Properties can contain the JCR Property Type information included in the value as well, for example:
myImportantProperty : 'type:Date'
- If the type information is included in the property, you can set the JCR Property value by using the 'value' special keyword:
myImportantProperty : 'type:String, value:The value of the property'
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If no type information is included in the property value, it will default as a String property.
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If no property value information can be determined, the following happens:
- If it's a String, the default is an empty string.
- If it's a number, date or binary, an exception is thrown.
- Properties of type Binary are also supported, in which case it's value will be a path to a resource file:
myFile : "type:Binary, value:/path/to/file.jpg"
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If the path to the binary doesn't exist an exception will be thrown.
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For Date properties the supported format is "MM/DD/YYYY":
dateOfBirth : "type:Date, value:09/24/1982"
- Node.getNode() with relative paths. For example, this will work:
String jsonNodeStructure = "{" +
"a: {" +
"b: {" +
"c: {" +
"d : {" +
"my_property : 'top'" +
"}" +
"}" +
"}" +
"}" +
"}";
Node rootNode = JcrMockingUtils.createNodesFromJsonString(jsonNodeStructure);
Node c = rootNode.getNode("a/b/c");
Node d = c.getNode("d");- Node.getParent() will work all the way to the top:
String jsonNodeStructure = "{" +
"a: {" +
"b: {" +
"c: {}" +
"}" +
"}" +
"}";
Node rootNode = JcrMockingUtils.createNodesFromJsonString(jsonNodeStructure);
Node c = rootNode.getNode("a/b/c");
Node a = c.getParent().getParent();- 2.1.4 - December 4, 2013
- Support for property.getLong() method.
- 2.1.3 - October 28, 2013
- Added support for node.hasNodes() and node.hasProperties()
- 2.1.2 - October 23, 2013
- Added support for propertyDefinition.isMultiple() and propertyDefinition.getRequiredType()
- 2.1.1 - October 21, 2013
- Adding support for PropertyIterator (i.e. node.getProperties()).
- Adding user friendly toString() to Node and Property.
- node.hasProperty() supports nested property.
- Added support for multivalued properties.
- 2.1.0 - October 2, 2013
- Adding ability to retrieve nested properties from ancestor nodes.
- Fixing issue with property value returning blank for jar:primaryType.
- Adding support for getPath() method for both Nodes and Properties.
- Fixing issue with multiple invocations to node.getNodes() not working.
- 2.0.0 - September 6, 2013
- Support for node.hasProperty, node.hasProperties, node.getSession and property.getSession methods.
- Removed jackrabbit dependencies.
- 1.0.0 - December 11, 2012
- Initial release
- Currently, only mocking of nodes is supported (via MockNodeFactory). However, it's possible to extend the framework to support writing of nodes to a real repository (for example, a TransientRepository) by implementing NodeFactory and implementing the required methods.