Hi Professor.

I just used mockmvc to send a user object without an email (Expecting it to fail) to my registration endpoint.

For some reason, it works. A 200 status code is returned and the response body contains a user object with the email being null.

If I send the same user object to the server without the email (using postman), it returns an error as expected because of my 'nullable = false' constraint on the email property.

What am I doing wrong?

When I check the database, nothing is saved.

An ID is generated for the User object in the response body.

Below is the response body:

MockHttpServletRequest:
      HTTP Method = POST
      Request URI = /user
       Parameters = {}
          Headers = {Content-Type=[application/json]}
             Body = <no character encoding set>
    Session Attrs = {}

Handler:
             Type = springrest.api.controller.UserController
           Method = public springrest.model.User springrest.api.controller.UserController.addUser(springrest.model.User)

Async:
    Async started = false
     Async result = null

Resolved Exception:
             Type = null

ModelAndView:
        View name = null
             View = null
            Model = null

FlashMap:
       Attributes = null

MockHttpServletResponse:
           Status = 200
    Error message = null
          Headers = {Content-Type=[application/json;charset=UTF-8]}
     Content type = application/json;charset=UTF-8
             Body = {"id":137,"first_name":"Victor","last_name":"Ahuwanya","position":"STUDENT","email":null,"username":"test_username","enabled":true,"title":"Lawyer","major_or_organizational_unit":"Computer Science","programs":null,"roles":null}
    Forwarded URL = null
   Redirected URL = null
          Cookies = []
FAILED: addUserFailure
java.lang.AssertionError: Range for response status value 200 expected:<CLIENT_ERROR> but was:<SUCCESSFUL>
    at org.springframework.test.util.AssertionErrors.fail(AssertionErrors.java:55)
    at org.springframework.test.util.AssertionErrors.assertEquals(AssertionErrors.java:82)
    at org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.StatusResultMatchers.lambda$is4xxClientError$5(StatusResultMatchers.java:92)
    at org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc$1.andExpect(MockMvc.java:179)
    at springrest.api.controller.UserControllerTest.addUserFailure(UserControllerTest.java:141)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:124)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper$1.runTestMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:230)
    at org.springframework.test.context.testng.AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests.run(AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests.java:180)
    at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeHookable(MethodInvocationHelper.java:242)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeMethod(Invoker.java:576)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethod(Invoker.java:716)
    at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeTestMethods(Invoker.java:988)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:125)
    at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:109)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:648)
    at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:505)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:455)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:450)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:415)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:364)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52)
    at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:84)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1208)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1137)
    at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1049)
    at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1017)
    at org.testng.remote.AbstractRemoteTestNG.run(AbstractRemoteTestNG.java:114)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.initAndRun(RemoteTestNG.java:251)
    at org.testng.remote.RemoteTestNG.main(RemoteTestNG.java:77)

===============================================
    Default test
    Tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0
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Default suite
Total tests run: 1, Failures: 1, Skips: 0
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Below is my UserControllerTest code:

@Test
    void addUserFailure() throws Exception {

        User user = new User();
//        user.setEmail("test@test.com");
        user.setFirst_name("Victor");
        user.setLast_name("Ahuwanya");
        user.setMajor_or_organizational_unit("Computer Science");
        user.setPassword("password");
        user.setUsername("test_username");
        Position position = User.Position.STUDENT;
        user.setPosition(position);
        user.setTitle("Lawyer");

        mockMvc.perform( post("/user")
                .contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
                .content(user.toString()))
                .andDo(MockMvcResultHandlers.print())
                .andExpect(status().is4xxClientError());

        System.out.println(user.toString());
    }