Re: testing a controller's add action

Is your add action using a redirect?
John

On Dec 26, 6:48 pm, Lorenzo Bettini <bett...@dsi.unifi.it> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I already managed to test some actions of controllers using testAction
> method; these were actions that were expected to return something.
>
> Now, I'd like to test an add action of the controller, thus, following
> the book I did:
>
> $data = array(
>         'Paper' => array(
>                 'title' => 'MyTitle',
>                 'year' => 2009
>         ));
> debug($data);
> $results = $this->testAction(
>         array(
>         'controller' => 'papers',
>         'action' => 'admin_add',
>         ),
>         array('data' => $data, 'method' => 'post')
>         );
>
> but when executing the controller's action (I tried that with the
> debug), the $this->data is always empty and uninitialized...  where am I
> going wrong?
>
> thanks in advance
>         Lorenzo
>
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