sending a cookie in the simpletest browser

Posted by greggles on May 13, 2009 at 2:08am

I need to test cookie integration with a 3rd party site.

The 3rd party site sets a cookie, Drupal sees this cookie, validates it, and logs in the user. I planned to test this by setting a cookie in my simpletest

I tried a couple of variations on:

<?php
$this->drupalGet('node', NULL, array('Cookie: cookiename=cookievalue;'));
?>

but the "cookiename=cookievalue" bits always got jammed onto the end of the SESS... cookie.

I grepped through core and didn't find any situations where we are sending a cookie along with the drupalGet. Any advice?

Comments

Couldn't browse to a menu

Posted by moshe weitzman on May 13, 2009 at 1:12pm

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Couldn't you browse to a menu callback thats sets the cookie and then to /node (in your example).

could do

Posted by greggles on May 13, 2009 at 1:51pm

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I certainly could do that, I thought of a few other potential solutions to the problem based around adding test specific code to my regular application but rejected them on principle. Do we have other situations where code for testing exists outside of the .test files? Is there a style guideline for that?

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We have lots of testing

Posted by moshe weitzman on May 13, 2009 at 5:11pm

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We have lots of testing modules under simpletest/tests. These are hidden from the admin/build/modules page with a .info param. Does that qualify as "ode for testing exists outside of the .test files".

This may not be possible

Posted by grendzy on May 13, 2009 at 3:54pm

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This may not be possible with the current simpletest infrastructure. Even cURL itself seems to lack the ability to set or otherwise interact with cookies. I've started http://drupal.org/node/457804, please let us know if you discover anything.