Unit Testing - Spring Boot App - unit-testing

Question

I looked at this link : How to write a unit test for a Spring Boot Controller endpoint
I am planning to unit test my Spring Boot Controller. I have pasted a method from my controller below. When I use the approach mentioned in the link above , will the call that I have to service.verifyAccount(request) not be made? Are we just testing whether the controller accepts the request in format specified and returns response in format specfied apart from testing the HTTP status codes?
#RequestMapping(value ="verifyAccount", method = RequestMethod.POST, produces=MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
public ResponseEntity<VerifyAccountResponse> verifyAccount(#RequestBody VerifyAccountRequest request) {
VerifyAccountResponse response = service.verifyAccount(request);
return new ResponseEntity<VerifyAccountResponse>(response, HttpStatus.OK);
}

Answer 1

You can write unit test case
using
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
// Your spring configuration class containing the
#EnableAutoConfiguration
// annotation
#SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Application.class)
// Makes sure the application starts at a random free port, caches it throughout
// all unit tests, and closes it again at the end.
#IntegrationTest("server.port:0")
#WebAppConfiguration
make sure you configure all your server configuration like port/url
#Value("${local.server.port}")
private int port;
private String getBaseUrl() {
return "http://localhost:" + port + "/";
}
Then use code mentioned below
protected <T> ResponseEntity<T> getResponseEntity(final String
requestMappingUrl, final Class<T> serviceReturnTypeClass, final Map<String, ?>
parametersInOrderOfAppearance) {
// Make a rest template do do the service call
final TestRestTemplate restTemplate = new TestRestTemplate();
// Add correct headers, none for this example
final HttpEntity<String> requestEntity = new HttpEntity<String>(new
HttpHeaders());
// Do a call the the url
final ResponseEntity<T> entity = restTemplate.exchange(getBaseUrl() +
requestMappingUrl, HttpMethod.GET, requestEntity, serviceReturnTypeClass,
parametersInOrderOfAppearance);
// Return result
return entity;
}
#Test
public void getWelcomePage() {
Map<String, Object> urlVariables = new HashMap<String, Object>();
ResponseEntity<String> response = getResponseEntity("/index",
String.class,urlVariables);
assertTrue(response.getStatusCode().equals(HttpStatus.OK));
}