This package provides some helpers and useful types for web testing. Including, but not limited to the Gorilla web toolkit.

Install using goinstall:

goinstall github.com/chlu/webtestutil

Clone and build using gomake:

git clone http://github.com/chlu/webtestutil
cd webtestutil
gomake install

This package provides some tools to write functional tests for web applications in Google Go. They should not be a replacement for proper unit tests, but are a simple (almost) end-to-end test for a web application.

If you use the (quite awesome) sessions package of the Gorilla web toolkit, you need some glue code to simulate sessions inside a test.

Import the webutils package in your test:

package my_test

import (
    "testing"

    "webtestutil"
)

Initialize the testing session store before the tests:

func init() {
    webtestutil.RegisterTestingStore()
}

Make sure to reset the session after each request:

func TestMyRequest() {
    r, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "/path", nil)
	w := httptest.NewRecorder()

    defer webtestutil.ResetSession()

    myHandler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
}

Put some values in the session for your tests:

func TestMyRequest() {
    r, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "/path", nil)
	w := httptest.NewRecorder()

    webtestutil.SessionData()["username"] = "j.doe"
    defer webtestutil.ResetSession()

    myHandler.ServeHTTP(w, r)
}

This package is licensed under an MIT license (see LICENSE).