Grails and Geb: Reproducible deletion test

Question

I want to test a simple CRUD deletion with Geb, Grails and RemoteControl.

Here my simplified code:

test "Delete a book"() {
    when:
    to BookShowPage // book/show/1
    deleteLink.click(BookListPage)

    then:
    // ...

    cleanup:
    def remote = new RemoteControl()
    remote {
        new Book(title:'title').save(failOnError: true, flush: true)
        return true
    }
}

But how can I make my test reproducible?

If I repeat my test, the new book will have another id and so test fails.

Answer 1

According to railsdog's comment, I resolved creating a new Book in the given block.

Here the right code:

test "Delete a book"() {
    given:
    def remote = new RemoteControl()
    def bookId = remote {
        Book book = new Book(title:'title').save(failOnError: true)
        return book.id
    }

    when:
    to BookShowPage, bookId // (*)
    deleteLink.click(BookListPage)

    then:
    // ...

    cleanup:
    remote {
        Book book = Book.get(bookId)
        if (book) { 
            // Test fails and we have junk into the db...
            book.delete(failOnError: true) 
        }
        return true
    }
}

(*) See how to customize Geb page URL.