Test Component

Testing of distributed and asynchronous processing is notoriously difficult. The Mock, Test and DataSet endpoints work great with the Camel Testing Framework to simplify your unit and integration testing using Enterprise Integration Patterns and Camel's large range of Components together with the powerful Bean Integration.

The test component extends the Mock component to support pulling messages from another endpoint on startup to set the expected message bodies on the underlying Mock endpoint. That is, you use the test endpoint in a route and messages arriving on it will be implicitly compared to some expected messages extracted from some other location.

So you can use, for example, an expected set of message bodies as files. This will then set up a properly configured Mock endpoint, which is only valid if the received messages match the number of expected messages and their message payloads are equal.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component when using Camel 2.8 or older:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-spring</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

From Camel 2.9: the Test component is provided directly in camel-core.

URI format

test:expectedMessagesEndpointUri

Where expectedMessagesEndpointUri refers to some other Component URI that the expected message bodies are pulled from before starting the test.

URI Options

Name

Default Value

Description

anyOrder

false

Camel 2.17: Whether the expected messages should arrive in the same order, or in any order.

delimiter

\n|\r

Camel 2.17: The delimiter to use when split=true. The delimiter can be a regular expression.

split

false

Camel 2.17: If true messages loaded from the test endpoint will be split using the defined delimiter.For example to use a file endpoint to load a file where each line is an expected message. 

timeout

2000

Camel 2.12: The timeout to use when polling for message bodies from the URI.

Example

For example, you could write a test case as follows:

from("seda:someEndpoint")
  .to("test:file://data/expectedOutput?noop=true");

If your test then invokes the MockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(camelContext) method, your test case will perform the necessary assertions.

To see how you can set other expectations on the test endpoint, see the Mock component.

See Also

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