AbstractXmlFlowExecutionTests with real subflow

[SteveT0004]

In SWF 2.0.7, I am trying to use AbstractXmlFlowExecutionTests to test a flow that starts with a subflow. Examples and documentation show how to register a mock subflow, and this post and JIRA (http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?p=232506) offer some description, but I can't get anything to work. Has anyone done this?

My main flow, signup-Member-flow.xml, starts

        <subflow-state id="common-signup" subflow="common-signup">
		<input name="siteMemberForm" value="siteMemberForm"/>
		<transition on="endCollect" to="review"/>
	</subflow-state>
	
	<view-state id="review" model="siteMemberForm">
       // .... do more stuff in the main flow

The subflow, common-signup-flow.xml, looks like:

        <input name="siteMemberForm" required="true"/>
	<!--  form to add members -->
	<view-state id="signup" model="siteMemberForm">
		<!-- set required fields and white-list -->
		<binder>
			//...bunch of bindings
		</binder>
		<transition on="signupMember" to="collectMemberData"/>
		<transition on="cancel" to="end" bind="false" validate="false"/>
	</view-state>
	
	<action-state id="collectMemberData">
		<evaluate expression="signupMemberActions.collectMemberData"/>
		<transition on="success" to="endCollect"/>
		<transition on="error" to="signup"/>
	</action-state>
	
	<end-state id="endCollect"/>

And my test class that extends AbstractXmlFlowExecutionTests has these lines:

        @Override
	protected FlowDefinitionResource getResource(FlowDefinitionResourceFactory resourceFactory) {
		return resourceFactory.createFileResource("src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/signup/signupMember-flow.xml");
	}


        @Test
	public void testStart() throws Exception {
		startFlow(new MockExternalContext());
		assertCurrentStateEquals(COMMON_SIGNUP);
		assertNotNull(getRequiredFlowAttribute("siteMemberForm"));
	}

The line startFlow(new MockExternalContext()); throws a NoSuchFlowDefinitionException: No flow definition 'common-signup' found. I've tried to override configureFlowBuilderContext, but I don't think I'm doing it right. It looks like:

        @Override
	protected void configureFlowBuilderContext(MockFlowBuilderContext builderContext) {
		Flow theFlow = createSubFlow(builderContext);
		builderContext.registerSubflow(theFlow);
	}
	
	protected Flow createSubFlow(MockFlowBuilderContext builderContext){
		FlowBuilder builder = createFlowBuilder(getResourceFactory().createFileResource("src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/common-signup/common-signup-flow.xml"));
		FlowAssembler assembler = new FlowAssembler(builder, builderContext);
		Flow theFlow = assembler.assembleFlow();
		return theFlow;
	}

That clunky attempt at creating the flow was based off of other examples I've found through searching the web.

Thanks in advance for the pointers and correction.

[ranjan_george]

You should probably override the getModelResources() method. Refer to "14.4. Registering flow dependencies" of the reference manual.

[SteveT0004]

I've already tried overriding getModelResources (with different permutations of flow creating the file resources), but it hasn't worked. From the title of 14.4, you would think a subflow would be a "flow dependency," but then subflows are not mentioned in the text - so I guess maybe I shouldn't expect that to work.

@Override
	protected FlowDefinitionResource[] getModelResources(FlowDefinitionResourceFactory resourceFactory) {
		FlowDefinitionResource[] resources = new FlowDefinitionResource[] {
				resourceFactory.createFileResource("src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/common-signup/common-signup-flow.xml"),
				resourceFactory.createFileResource("src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/signup/signupMember-flow.xml")
			   };
		return resources;
	}

I think I'm in the same position as gmatthews here:
http://forum.springsource.org/showth...nTests+subflow