Mastering Spring 5.0

Writing the Test method

The complete Test method is shown in the following code:

    @Test     public void basicTest() throws Exception {       this.mockMvc       .perform(       get("/welcome")       .accept(MediaType.parseMediaType       ("application/html;charset=UTF-8")))       .andExpect(status().isOk())       .andExpect( content().contentType       ("application/html;charset=UTF-8"))       .andExpect(content().        string("Welcome to Spring MVC"));     }

A few important things to note are as follows:

• MockMvc mockMvc.perform: This method executes the request and returns an instance of ResultActions that allows chaining calls. In this example, we are chaining the andExpect calls to check expectations.
• get("/welcome").accept(MediaType.parseMediaType("application/html;charset=UTF-8")): This ...