rspec users - Feb 2009 - Setting Request Body (in stories in particular)

I''m trying to set my request body in my tests (the application is a
web service that takes large XML files in PUT requests).

If you do this:

put :update, :body => xml

You get a request with an empty body, and a field in the header called
"body" set to the XML.  You can set the body date in controller specs
by calling

request.env[''RAW_POST_DATA''] = xml

But that doesn''t work in stories (request is nil), and it''s
not very
elegant, anyway.  Does anyone know how to set a request body in a
scenario step?

On 19 Feb 2009, at 03:36, Michael Sofaer wrote:
> I''m trying to set my request body in my tests (the application is
a
> web service that takes large XML files in PUT requests).
>
> If you do this:
>
> put :update, :body => xml
>
> You get a request with an empty body, and a field in the header called
> "body" set to the XML.  You can set the body date in controller
specs
> by calling
>
> request.env[''RAW_POST_DATA''] = xml
>
> But that doesn''t work in stories (request is nil), and
it''s not very
> elegant, anyway.  Does anyone know how to set a request body in a
> scenario step?
I don''t know if you''re aware of it, but assuming
you''re testing a
Rails app, your scenario steps are running inside a Rails  
ActionController::Integration::Session

The documentation for the #put method is here:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Integration/Session.html#M000420


Matt Wynne
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