Jetty and JUnit - sending stub responses over http - junit

Question

I need to send a stub response over http to a requesting client from Jetty. It works when I run the Junit test independently, implies, I get the correct XML response .. but it fails when I run the same thing from maven. The error I see is "java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server". I have tried everything! Please help!
Here's my code -
Junit (when run as a Junit test - it works)
public class MyTest {
#Test
public void testGetOpenLots() throws Exception {
// create fixture
MyService fixture = new MyService();
// create jetty server instance
Server server = new Server(8080);
// set a handler
server.setHandler(new HelloHandler());
// set shutdown conditions
// server.setStopAtShutdown(true);
// start server
server.start();
// invoke operation
MyResponse result = fixture.getWeather(someDummyRequest);
assertNotNull(result);
}
}
Somewhere down the line, inside getWeather(), I create a URL object and pass the URL http://localhost:8080 to it and send the request to that URL. At this point, I expect that the HelloHandler's handle method will get invoked and will write this dummy XML response to stream and getWeather() method will receive the response.
Here's the handler:
public class HelloHandler extends AbstractHandler {
public void handle(String target, Request baseRequest,
HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
response.setContentType("application/xml;charset=utf-8");
response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_OK);
baseRequest.setHandled(true);
response.getWriter().println("<result>a simple response</result>");
}
}
When I run the same thing from maven, it throws the error mentioned above. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Instead of implementing your own jetty handler you can try Jadler (http://jadler.net), an http stubbing/mocking library I've been working on for a while.