15 August 2008
Grails Tests: Cannot send redirect - response is already committed
When testing controllers, if you make more than one call to a action/closure you may get the error: “Cannot send redirect - response is already committed” But if you want to call one action to modify the database and then test the results in a subsequent call, if you put that call in a different test method, the prior test’s transaction will probably be rolled back. So you want to make both action/closure calls in the same test method. To get around this mess I simply MOPed it up (with help from Venkat Subramaniam’s book “Programming Groovy”):
controller.metaClass.redirect = { Map args -> return args}
Note that the action of the redirect will not be invoked. Also note that I am MOPing an instance, not the Class.
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