Android AsyncTask testing problem with Android Test Framework
- by Vlad
I have a very simple AsyncTask implementation example and have problem to test it using Android JUnit framework.
It works just fine when I instantiate and execute it in normal application.
However when it's executed from any of Android Testing framework classes (i.e. AndroidTestCase, ActivityUnitTestCase, ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 etc) it behaves sarngely:
- It executes doInBackground() method correctly
- However it doesn't invokes any of its notification methods (onPostExecute(), onProgressUpdate(), etc) -- just silently ignores them whitout showing any errors.
This is very simple AsyncTask example
package kroz.andcookbook.threads.asynctask;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.Toast;
public class AsyncTaskDemo extends AsyncTask<Integer, Integer, String> {
AsyncTaskDemoActivity _parentActivity;
int _counter;
int _maxCount;
public AsyncTaskDemo(AsyncTaskDemoActivity asyncTaskDemoActivity) {
_parentActivity = asyncTaskDemoActivity;
}
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
_parentActivity._progressBar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.VISIBLE);
_parentActivity._progressBar.invalidate();
}
@Override
protected String doInBackground(Integer... params) {
_maxCount = params[0];
for (_counter = 0; _counter <= _maxCount; _counter++) {
try {
Thread.sleep(1000);
publishProgress(_counter);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// Ignore
}
}
}
@Override
protected void onProgressUpdate(Integer... values) {
super.onProgressUpdate(values);
int progress = values[0];
String progressStr = "Counting " + progress + " out of " + _maxCount;
_parentActivity._textView.setText(progressStr);
_parentActivity._textView.invalidate();
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
super.onPostExecute(result);
_parentActivity._progressBar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.INVISIBLE);
_parentActivity._progressBar.invalidate();
}
@Override
protected void onCancelled() {
super.onCancelled();
_parentActivity._textView.setText("Request to cancel AsyncTask");
}
}
This is a test case. Here AsyncTaskDemoActivity is a very simple Activity providing UI for testing AsyncTask in mode:
package kroz.andcookbook.test.threads.asynctask;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import kroz.andcookbook.R;
import kroz.andcookbook.threads.asynctask.AsyncTaskDemo;
import kroz.andcookbook.threads.asynctask.AsyncTaskDemoActivity;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.test.ActivityUnitTestCase;
import android.widget.Button;
public class AsyncTaskDemoTest2 extends ActivityUnitTestCase<AsyncTaskDemoActivity> {
AsyncTaskDemo _atask;
private Intent _startIntent;
public AsyncTaskDemoTest2() {
super(AsyncTaskDemoActivity.class);
}
protected void setUp() throws Exception {
super.setUp();
_startIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MAIN);
}
protected void tearDown() throws Exception {
super.tearDown();
}
public final void testExecute() {
startActivity(_startIntent, null, null);
Button btnStart = (Button) getActivity().findViewById(R.id.Button01);
btnStart.performClick();
assertNotNull(getActivity());
}
}
All this code is working just fine, except the fact that AsynTask doesn't invoke it's notification methods when executed by whithin Android Testing Framework. Any ideas?
