playframework testing - set up and tear down - how to?

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I've started using playframwork (scala) and I'm writing some tests. Before starting them I'd like to put in some mock data in my db (mongo) and later on when the tests are over remove this data. I've got the code to put/remove this data but can't figure out how to consistently get this done before/after the tests are run.

I'm using the "specs2" testing library that comes with playframework but was unable to find any docs on how this can be done with specs.

Do you know how this can be done with specs? or can recommend another well known testing lib for playframework that I should use instead of specs?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '13 at 09:51

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I did not test it, but from the doc, Specs2 seems to support the Before/After approach: http://etorreborre.github.io/specs2/guide/org.specs2.guide.Structure.html#Before%2FAfter

answered Jun 21 '13 at 09:51

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The link is dead now – Tyler Feb 26 '16 at 19:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 21 '13 at 10:27

You can find some running examples here on GitHub. It's from a pet project of mine, written in Scala with the Play Framork version 2.1.0.

The keypart is the following:

"Application" should {
  "work from within a browser" in {
    running(TestServer(3333), HTMLUNIT) { browser =>

This starts up the Play application on port 3333. Before this you can add the code for your test fixtures etc.

If you want the sytem to assign a free port for the tests, you can have a look here.

playframework testing - set up and tear down - how to?

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