How to test a class that makes HTTP request and parse the response data in Obj-C?
- by GuidoMB
I Have a Class that needs to make an HTTP request to a server in order to get some information. For example:
- (NSUInteger)newsCount {
NSHTTPURLResponse *response;
NSError *error;
NSURLRequest *request = ISKBuildRequestWithURL(ISKDesktopURL, ISKGet, cookie, nil, nil);
NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (!data) {
NSLog(@"The user's(%@) news count could not be obtained:%@", username, [error description]);
return 0;
}
NSString *regExp = @"Usted tiene ([0-9]*) noticias? no leídas?";
NSString *stringData = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSArray *match = [stringData captureComponentsMatchedByRegex:regExp];
[stringData release];
if ([match count] < 2)
return 0;
return [[match objectAtIndex:1] intValue];
}
The things is that I'm unit testing (using OCUnit) the hole framework but the problem is that I need to simulate/fake what the NSURLConnection is responding in order to test different scenarios and because I can't relay on the server to test my framework.
So the question is Which is the best ways to do this?
