Junit in mule

Abstract
• The main motto of this white paper is what
the issues to write test cases using JUnit are
and how to overcome those issues.

Table of Contents
• ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. PROBLEM STATEMENT
3. SOLUTION
4. BENEFITS
5. CONCLUSION
6. REFERENCES
7. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
8. ABOUT WHISHWORKS

Introduction
• We have multiple unit test frameworks to
write unit and functional test cases for our
services. When we write functional test cases
using JUnit we can’t mock mule components.
To resolve this issues we have to use MUnit
and I am going to explain what is the problem
with JUnit and how to resolve using MUnit in
the below.

Problem Statement
• When we write functional test cases using JUnit, the test case will
directly connect to original components like SAP, Salesforce etc. and
insert/select the data. It is the issue in JUnit functional test case
why because we are writing functional test cases to check whether
entire functionality is working as expected or not without modifying
the original components(SAP,Salesforce,Database) data, but in JUnit
functional test cases it is directly connecting to original components
and modifying the original data.
• Examples:
1. SAP Connector
• Mule flow:

• Flow of execution
1. Trigger the service with xml request.
2. Receive the input request and process it.
3. Transform the processed request to SAP IDoc
and push it to SAP.

• Functional test case using JUnit:
• Public void functionalTest(){
•
• File fXmlFile = new File(request.xml);
• StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
• BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fXmlFile));
•
• String sCurrentLine = new String();
• //Read the data from file and append to string
• while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
• sb.append(sCurrentLine);
• }
•
• DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
•
• HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(requrl);
•
• httppost.setEntity(new StringEntity(sb.toString(), "UTF-8"));
• //Trigger the service
• HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
•
• ----
• ----
• }
•

1. Read the input request from request.xml file.
2. Trigger the service with above request.
3. Process the input request.
4. Transform the processed request to SAP IDoc
and push it to SAP.
• Issue
• Here we are unable to mock the SAP
component so the test case is directly pushing
the IDoc to original SAP.
• NOTE: Not only pushing the IDoc to SAP, at the
time of receiving IDoc from SAP also we will

• 2. Salesforce
• Mule flow

1. Trigger the service with xml request.
2. Processes the input request.
3. Create the processed request as customer in
Salesforce.

• Functional Test Case
• Public void functionalTest(){
•
• File fXmlFile = new File(request.xml);
• StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
• BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fXmlFile));
•
• String sCurrentLine = new String();
• // Read the data from file and append to string
• while ((sCurrentLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
• sb.append(sCurrentLine);
• }
•
• DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
•
• HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(requrl);
•
• httppost.setEntity(new StringEntity(sb.toString(), "UTF-8"));
• //Trigger the service
• HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
•
• ----
• ----
• }

• Flow of Execution
1. First read the input request from request.xml
file.
2. Trigger the service with above request.
3. Process the input request.
4. Create the customer in salesforce.
• Issue
• Here also we are unable to mock the
Salesforce component so it will connect to
original Salesforce connector and create the

Solution
• To resolve the above JUnit functional test case
issue we have a separate framework called
MUnit. MUnit is also one framework which is
used to write test cases as same as JUnit, but
here in MUnit we can mock all components
like SAP, Salesforce, Database etc. So to
overcome the above problem we can use
MUnit to write functional test cases.

• Example
• Mocking Salesforce test case using Munit
• .mflow
• <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
•
• <mule xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core" xmlns:vm="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/vm"
xmlns:sfdc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sfdc" xmlns:doc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation"
xmlns:spring="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:core="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core" version="EE-3.4.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/vm
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/vm/current/mule-vm.xsd
• http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sfdc http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/sfdc/5.0/mule-sfdc.xsd
• http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-current.xsd
• http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd">
• <vm:endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" path="CREATE_CSTMR_VM" name="CREATE_CSTMR_VM" doc:name="VM"/>
• <vm:endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" path="INSERT_PERSON_ACT_VM" name="INSERT_PERSON_ACT_VM" doc:name="VM"/>
• <flow name="CreateCustomerSFServiceTSFlow1" doc:name="CreateCustomerSFServiceTSFlow1">
• <vm:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" ref="CREATE_CSTMR_VM" doc:name="VM"/>
• <component class="com.vertu.services.ecom.maintaincustmr.processor.CreateCustomerProcessor" doc:name="CreateCustomerProcessor"/>
• </flow>
• <flow name="CreateCustomerSFServiceTSFlow2" doc:name="CreateCustomerSFServiceTSFlow2">
• <vm:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response" ref="INSERT_PERSON_ACT_VM" doc:name="VM"/>
• <sfdc:create config-ref="ECOM_SALESFORCE_CONNECTOR" type="#[payload.Type]" doc:name="Salesforce">
• <sfdc:objects ref="#[payload.Object]"/>
• </sfdc:create>
• </flow>
• </mule>
• Here we have a Salesforce component to create the customer in Salesforce and return the customer-id as payload. So in functional test case we
should mock this component without connecting to original Salesforce.

• How to mock Salesforce component in MUnit functional test case
•
• To mock Salesforce component, first we should know
•
• Endpoint type.
• Name of the message processor and namespace of endpoint (from auto-generated
XML).
• The type of payload the endpoint returns.
•
•
• Mocking above flow Salesforce component
•
• Create the salesforce response payload.
•
• List<Map<String,Object>> l1 = new ArrayList<Map<String,Object>>();
• Map<String,Object> m1 = new HashMap<Srtring,Object>>();
• m1.put(“custid”,”1234”);
• l1.add(m1);
•
• Mock the salesforce component and return the above created list as response
payload.
•
• whenMessageProcessor("create").ofNamespace("sfdc").

• MUnit functional test case for above flow
• public class MUnitSalesforceStubTest extends FunctionalMunitSuite {
• /**
• * The purpose of this method is to define the list of flow
• * files which will be loaded by Munit test case before executing
• * Munit test case. Specify multiple flow files as comma
• * separated XML files.
• */
• @Override
• protected String getConfigResources() {
• return "src/main/app/MUnitSFTest.xml";
• }
• /**
• *The purpose of this method is to define the list of
• flow name which will execute in Munit test case.
• */
• protected List<String> getFlowsExcludedOfInboundDisabling(){
• List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
• list.add("CreateCustomerSFServiceTSFlow2");
• return list;
• }
• /**
• * The purpose of this method is to flip between mock
• * and real time interfaces. Return false to Mock
• * all endpoints in your flow
• */
• @Override
• public boolean haveToMockMuleConnectors() {
• return true;
• }

• /**
• * Java based Munit test case. Contains mocking and
• * invocation of flows and assertions.
• */
• @Test
• public void validateEchoFlow() throws Exception {
•
• m1.put(“custid”,”1234”);
• l1.add(m1);
•
• // Mock SFDC outbound endpoint
• whenMessageProcessor("query").ofNamespace("sfdc").thenReturn( muleMessageWithPayload( l1)
);
•
• // Run the Munit test case by passing a test payload
• MuleEvent resultEvent = runFlow( " CreateCustomerSFServiceTSFlow1", testEvent(“request”));
• // The resultEvent contains response from the VM flow
• System.out.println( "The flow response is:: " + resultEvent.getMessage().getPayloadAsString() );
• // Do any assertion here using Assert.equals() for asserting response // payload
• }
• }

• Mocking Database component test case using MUnit
• .mflow
<flow name="CheckAcctIDFlow" doc:name="CheckAcctIDFlow">
<vm:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-response"
ref="FETCH_ACT_GUID_VM1" doc:name="FETCH_ACT_GUID_VM1"/>
<logger message="#[message.inboundProperties['ACCT_GUID']]"
level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
<jdbc-ee:outbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="request-
response" queryKey="Get_ACC_ID" queryTimeout="-1" connector-
ref="CDMR_JDBC_CONNECTOR" doc:name="Get_ACCT_ID"/>
</flow>
• Here we have a database component used to select and return the
account-id from database. So we need to mock this component in
functional test case.

• Mocking above flow Database component
•
• Create the database response payload.
•
• List<Map<String,Object>> l1 = new
ArrayList<Map<String,Object>>();
• Map<String,Object> m1 = new
HashMap<Srtring,Object>>();
• m1.put(“accountid”,”1234”);
• l1.add(m1);
•
• Mock the database component and return the above
created list as response payload.
•
• whenEndpointWithAddress( "jdbc://Get_ACC_ID"
).thenReturn(new DefaultMuleMessage(l1,

• MUnit functional test case for above flow
• public class MUnitSalesforceStubTest extends FunctionalMunitSuite {
• /**
• * The purpose of this method is to define the list of flow
• * files which will be loaded by Munit test case before executing
• * Munit test case. Specify multiple flow files as comma
• * separated XML files.
• */
• @Override
• protected String getConfigResources() {
• return "src/main/app/MUnitSFTest.xml";
• }
•
• /**
• * The purpose of this method is to flip between mock
• * and real time interfaces. Return false to Mock
• * all endpoints in your flow
• */
• @Override
• public boolean haveToMockMuleConnectors() {
• return true;
• }
• /**
• * Java based Munit test case. Contains mocking and
• * invocation of flows and assertions.
• */
• @Test
• public void validateEchoFlow() throws Exception {
•
• m1.put(“accountid”,”1234”);
• l1.add(m1);

• // Mock Database outbound endpoint
• whenEndpointWithAddress( "jdbc://Get_ACC_ID"
).thenReturn(new DefaultMuleMessage(l1,
muleContext ) );
•
• // Run the Munit test case by passing a test payload
• MuleEvent resultEvent = runFlow( " CheckAcctIDFlow ",
testEvent(“request”));
• // The resultEvent contains response from the VM flow
• System.out.println( "The flow response is:: " +
resultEvent.getMessage().getPayloadAsString() );
• // Do any assertion here using Assert.equals() for
asserting response // payload
• }
• }

Benefits
• Create Java based or Mule flow based unit test cases
• Mock endpoints (Salesforce, Database, or SAP etc.) to
return custom payloads for unit testing
• Dynamically flip/parameterize Munit test cases to Mock
payloads or use real time interfaces
• Support functional unit testing similar to Mule Functional
test case
• Support Assertion through Spy processors and additionally
verify flows using Message verifiers (introspect payload at
different flows for flow navigation)
• Support Asynchronous flow processing and request-
response processors
• Mock without custom database or in memory database
• Automate test cases using Maven and generate HTML
reports using Surefire plugins

Conclusion
• When we write test cases using JUnit we can’t
mock all mule components and the test case
will connect to original connectors(SAP,
Salesforce). So to overcome this issue we can
use MUnit to write test cases effectively.

References
• https://github.com/mulesoft/munit
• http://www.mulesoft.org/documentation/dis
play/EARLYACCESS/MUnit
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/mule-best-
practices-backed

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