What's New With 4.0.0
Released: April 28, 2020
TestBox 4.0.0 is a major release. It has compatibility changes that you should be aware and lots of good features!
The major compatibility issues are the engine support removals:
- Lucee 4.5 Support Dropped
- Adobe ColdFusion 11 Dropped
It is easy to update, just type
update testbox and you are done!Sometimes you need to dump something that is in the CFC you are testing or maybe an asynchronous test. The
debug() method is only accessible from your test bundle, so getting to the TestBox output utilities is not easy. We have now implemented the testing utilities into the request scope as request.testboxThis utility struct provides you with the following methods:
Method | Comment |
console() | Send output to the console |
debug() | Send output to the TestBox reporter debugger |
clearDebugBuffer() | Clear the debugger |
print() | Send output to the ColdFusion output buffer |
printLn() | Same as print() but adding a <br> separator |
This way in your code you can add them for better debugging, especially when testing async code:
request.testbox.console( "I am here" )
request.testbox.debug( "why is this not running" )
We have included MockDataCFC as a dependency to TestBox 4. This will allow you to mock not only objects but data as well. You can access the mocking method via the new
mockData() method in all your specs. This feature is a life-saver when mocking APIs or data within your applications.# Array of objects
var data = mockData(
$num = 3,
"author" = "name",
"id" = "uuid"
);
# An object
var data = mockData(
$returnType = "struct",
"author" = "name",
"id" = "uuid"
);
Let's imagine the following object graph:
Author
Has Many Books
Has Many Categories
Has Keywords
Has A Publisher
I can then use this mocking DSL to define it:
mockData(
fullName = "name",
description = "sentence",
age = "age",
id = "uuid",
createdDate = "datetime",
isActive = "oneof:true: false",
// one to many complex object definitions
books = [
{
$num = "rand:1: 3",
"id" = "uuid",
"title" = "words:1: 5",
"categories" = {
"$num" = "2",
"id" = "uuid",
"category" = "words"
}
}
],
// object definition
publisher = {
"id" = "uuid",
"name" = "sentence"
},
// array of values
keywords = [
{
"$num" = "rand:1: 10",
"$type" = "words"
}
]
);
- [TESTBOX-275] - Exception in
beforeTests/afterTestsnot reported in a meaningful way on the ANT Junit Reporter
- [TESTBOX-280] - Add cfconfig.json for controlling output and consistency between testing in diff engines
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