Muel-esb: Testing Choice Router

Question

Is there a way to test a choice router for the following scenario which is based on the http.status? I am seeking a way to test the first condition of the router

<flow>  
 <choice>
  <when expression="#[message.inboundProperties['http.status'] !=201">  
   ......
   <otherwise>
    .....
   </otherwise>
  </choice>
</flow>

I want to verify that a javax.ws.rs.core.Response with can be correctly handled by the HTTP endpoint.

The flow doesn't have an inbound endpoint: does it mean you invoke it via a `flow-ref`? — David Dossot, Nov 07 '13 at 05:22
You have asked couple of same other questions on SO without accepting the answers or comments if it didn't help you. Like [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19781993/mule-esb-process-jersey-response-based-on-status-code-using-choice-router) and [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19758138/mule-esb-mule-filter-based-on-http-status) — Charu Khurana, Nov 07 '13 at 10:27
Yes, it is called from another flow which has an http:outbound-endpoint. The outbound-endpoint invokes a remote rest service which returns a status of 201 if every went well or another status if things didn;t work well. — BreenDeen, Nov 07 '13 at 14:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 07 '13 at 17:48

The flow doesn't have an inbound endpoint (thus it's a private flow) so to test it

create a test flow in a test XML config file that you will load side by side with your other Mule configuration XML files,
add an inbound VM endpoint to this test flow and make it call the private flow you want to test,
in your functional test case, use the Mule Client to dispatch a test message over the VM endpoint, setting properties on this test message that will end-up as inbound properties in the private flow.

Muel-esb: Testing Choice Router

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