Rails - Nov 2010 - Rails 3 rspec 2 rendering XML repsonse.should contain(<hash>.to_xml)

Hi all,

Is there an issue with Rails 3 or rspec 2 that the
repond_with({"success" => "test") where the response is
not an xml
text?

I have almost converted an old Rails 2 app to Rails 3 and having an
issue with the rspec tests and the response content for xml.  It works
for json, but not xml.

Say I have something like this.

SimpleController < ActionController::Base

  respond_to :html, :xml, :json

  def test_action
     @foo = { "success" => "test" }
     respond_with(@foo) do |format|
       format.html { render :text => "success"}
    end
  end
end

When I tested the xml rendering, I check the response contains
(have_text in rails 2) for the content.  In the past (rails 2 and
rspec 1.x), I would test this as:
response.should have_text("<?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
\n<hash>\n  <success>test</success>\n</hash>\n")

I converted the ''have_text'' to ''contain'' to
read:
response.should contain("<?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
\n<hash>\n  <success>test</success>\n</hash>\n")

This spec fails with on xml and not json:

     Failure/Error: response.should contain(success_text)
     expected the following element''s content to include "<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
     <hash>
       <success>xml</success>
     </hash>
     ":
     test

It looks like, the response is only "test" which is the value of the
hash.

On json the response is as expected:  {"success":"test"}.

Sorry for the lame example, but I really did not want to go into big
long explanation of the "real" test code.  Basically, I test the
response and it should contain valid xml or json based on the format.
I even tried response.body and it fails.  Is this a rspec issue?  I
did a pp of the response and the body does look like the expected
result.

Has anyone come across this?

Thanks,

GregD

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On Nov 29, 2:58 pm, GregD <gditr...-rDkNP/OoUoU@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there an issue with Rails 3 or rspec 2 that the
> repond_with({"success" => "test") where the response
is not an xml
> text?
>
> I have almost converted an old Rails 2 app to Rails 3 and having an
> issue with the rspec tests and the response content for xml.  It works
> for json, but not xml.
>
> Say I have something like this.
>
> SimpleController < ActionController::Base
>
>   respond_to :html, :xml, :json
>
>   def test_action
>      @foo = { "success" => "test" }
>      respond_with(@foo) do |format|
>        format.html { render :text => "success"}
>     end
>   end
> end
>
> When I tested the xml rendering, I check the response contains
> (have_text in rails 2) for the content.  In the past (rails 2 and
> rspec 1.x), I would test this as:
> response.should have_text("<?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
> \n<hash>\n
 <success>test</success>\n</hash>\n")
>
> I converted the ''have_text'' to
''contain'' to read:
> response.should contain("<?xml version=\"1.0\"
encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
> \n<hash>\n
 <success>test</success>\n</hash>\n")
The contain matcher comes from either webrat or capybara, and is
designed to specify content that is visible in a browser in an HTML
page (i.e. not tags).

I''d go with have_xpath instead, which is supported by both webrat and
capybara, though with slightly different APIs for each (check their
docs).

HTH,
David
>
> This spec fails with on xml and not json:
>
>      Failure/Error: response.should contain(success_text)
>      expected the following element''s content to include
"<?xml
> version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>      <hash>
>        <success>xml</success>
>      </hash>
>      ":
>      test
>
> It looks like, the response is only "test" which is the value of
the
> hash.
>
> On json the response is as expected:
 {"success":"test"}.
>
> Sorry for the lame example, but I really did not want to go into big
> long explanation of the "real" test code.  Basically, I test the
> response and it should contain valid xml or json based on the format.
> I even tried response.body and it fails.  Is this a rspec issue?  I
> did a pp of the response and the body does look like the expected
> result.
>
> Has anyone come across this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> GregD
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