Getting Session Value from ScalatraTest-ScalaTest

Question

I am currently writing a number of Scalatra tests using the ScalaTest framework and the ScalatraSuite class.

  test("when i try to go to the base url it shold redirect me "){
    get("/") {
      status should be(302) 
    }
  }

The next step requires me to check the existance of some session values but it is unclear how to do this? Can anyone advise? I am creating a SessionAccess trait that, for the purposes of the test, overriding witha simple trait the stores session in an accessible HashMap but I am certain there is a simpler way?

Answer 1

I had a look at the code of ScalatraSuite and it looks like there is no way to retrieve the session object itself. You can however execute multiple calls inside of a session to check for the expected behaviour.

If you had these calls:

post("/start") {
  session("foo") = params("foo")
  // ...
}

get("/do_something") {
  session.get("foo")
}

you could test it like this:

test("Whatever inside of a session") {
  session {
    post("/start", "foo" -> "bar") {
      // assert...
    }
    get("/do_something") {
      body should equal ("bar")
    }
  }
}

Hope that helps.