unable to convert testcases that run OK in ServletTestRunner to run via ant task ?

[Ian Huynh <ia...@hubspan.com>]

I apologize in advance if this question has been asked before but
I've fought with <cactus> and ant for the last couple of days and can't get it to work.

Env: 
----
JBoss 3.2.1 , Ant 1.5.3  Cactus 1.5  JUnit 3.8.1

BackGround
------------
1.   JBoss has a customized run.bat file so I AM using the generic <containerset> which does nothing in the 
     start target and I manually start JBoss

2.   I need to test my test cases inside the container b/c a number of the classes tested 
     rely on resources that are initialized by a servlet that is loaded on startup, so
     running pure JUnit doesn't work.

3.   my JUnit test class below works fine if I execute it using a browser and 
      browse to http://localhost:7000/test/ServletTestRunner?suite=com.acme.MyTestCase001
   
     but if runing in <cactus> ant task, it errored out in the last line of code below 
     Seems like it's running out side of the container

     public class MyTestCase001 extends TestCase
     {
	    // -- basic stub --
	    public MyTestCase001 (String strName) { super (strName); }
    	public static Test suite() {
	        return new TestSuite(MyTestCase001.class);
	    }
	    public static void main(String[] theArgs) {
	        junit.textui.TestRunner.run(suite());
	    }
	    // -- end of basic stub --

    	public void test001() throws Exception {
          // get the settings that was initialized by the Servlet
          Throwable t = new Throwable();
          t.printStackTrace();

          //// fails here ////
	    Settings = SettingFactory.getSettings();  <--  // fails here b/c SettingFactory was not initialized
	    
	    }
	}

when running with ant -verbose i am getting this 

  [cactus] Adding Cactus server system property [cactus.cactus.contextURL] with value [null]
  [cactus] -----------------------------------------------------------------
  [cactus] Running tests against HubspanJBossContainer
  [cactus] -----------------------------------------------------------------
  [cactus] Starting up container
  [cactus] Container responding to HTTP requests as null

  
...  [cactus] , java.vm.specification.vendor=Sun  .. (more stuff deleted)
...    cactus.contextURL=http://localhost:7000/test, ...


and the throwable stack trace shows that Cactus calls ant to run (but it seems to run outside of the container)

	at com.acme.MyTestCase001.test001(MyTestCase001 .java:58)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.runTest(TestCase.java:154)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:127)
	at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:106)
	at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:124)
	at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:109)
	at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:118)
	at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:208)
	at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:203)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTestRunner.run(JUnitTestRunner.java:325)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask.executeInVM(JUnitTask.java:848)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.junit.JUnitTask.execute(JUnitTask.java:556)
	at org.apache.cactus.integration.ant.CactusTask.executeInContainer(CactusTask.java:465)
	at org.apache.cactus.integration.ant.CactusTask.execute(CactusTask.java:229)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:341)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:309)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:336)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1339)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1255)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:609)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:196)
	at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235)