[SOLVED] Play2 scala specs2 test FakeRequest with remote address

Play2 scala specs2 test FakeRequest with remote address

I'm working with Play! 2.4 scala, spec2 and Mockito.

I'm trying to set the remote address of a fake request in one of my integration tests but I can't found the right way to do that.

I would like to do something similar to the following snippet of code (that does not compile):

route(FakeRequest(GET, "/users/geographicPoint", remoteAddress =  "81.xxx.xxx.xxx"))

How can I easily do that?

Solution

FakeRequest.apply does not have an overload that accepts only those three parameters. The case class itself has some parameters without defaults that you would have to fill in. (Before editing) I would say you could just use the copy method, since FakeRequest is a case class, then fill in the value you want. But annoyingly, the copy method is inherited from RequestHeader, so when you copy a FakeRequest, you do not get a FakeRequest in return. Instead, you have to invoke the constructor manually:

import play.api.mvc.AnyContentAsEmpty

new FakeRequest("GET", "/", FakeHeaders(), AnyContentAsEmpty, remoteAddress = "1.2.3.4")