Robolectric: How can I test an activity that contains a SherlockFragment?

Question

I have been reading a lot of links from here, github and robolectric blog but couldn't find a working solution yet (already using Robolectric 2.0 alpha 2).

UPDATE: The problem also happens even if we replace SherlockFragment for android.support.v4.app.Fragment.

I was able to test a SherlockFragmentActivity after following this tip, but when I add this fragment, that is a SherlockFragment, to my activity xml:

<fragment 
    android:name="com.marcelopazzo.fragmentapplication.ExampleFragment" 
    android:id="@+id/example_fragment"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

The SherlockFragment class:

public class ExampleFragment extends SherlockFragment {

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        return inflater.inflate(R.layout.example_fragment, container, false);
    }
}

And this is the layout that is being inflated by the fragment:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/hello_again"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:text="@string/hello_again" />

</LinearLayout>

I get the following error:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowViewGroup.addView(ShadowViewGroup.java:69)
    at android.view.ViewGroup.addView(ViewGroup.java)
    at org.robolectric.res.builder.LayoutBuilder.constructFragment(LayoutBuilder.java:150)
    at org.robolectric.res.builder.LayoutBuilder.create(LayoutBuilder.java:104)
    at org.robolectric.res.builder.LayoutBuilder.doInflate(LayoutBuilder.java:42)
    at org.robolectric.res.builder.LayoutBuilder.doInflate(LayoutBuilder.java:45)
    at org.robolectric.res.builder.LayoutBuilder.inflateView(LayoutBuilder.java:62)
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowLayoutInflater.inflate(ShadowLayoutInflater.java:50)
    at org.robolectric.shadows.ShadowLayoutInflater.inflate(ShadowLayoutInflater.java:55)
    at android.view.LayoutInflater.inflate(LayoutInflater.java)
    at com.squareup.test.ActionBarSherlockRobolectric.setContentView(ActionBarSherlockRobolectric.java:38)
    at com.actionbarsherlock.app.SherlockFragmentActivity.setContentView(SherlockFragmentActivity.java:262)
    at com.marcelopazzo.fragmentapplication.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:13)
    at com.marcelopazzo.fragmentapplication.MainActivityTest.setUp(MainActivityTest.java:33)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:15)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:41)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:27)
    at org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner$2.evaluate(RobolectricTestRunner.java:110)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runNotIgnored(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:79)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:49)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:193)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:52)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:191)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:42)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:184)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:236)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.execute(JUnit4Provider.java:234)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.executeTestSet(JUnit4Provider.java:133)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.junit4.JUnit4Provider.invoke(JUnit4Provider.java:114)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.util.ReflectionUtils.invokeMethodWithArray(ReflectionUtils.java:188)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory$ProviderProxy.invoke(ProviderFactory.java:166)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ProviderFactory.invokeProvider(ProviderFactory.java:86)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.runSuitesInProcess(ForkedBooter.java:101)
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.ForkedBooter.main(ForkedBooter.java:74)

This is the test class that I am using:

@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner.class)
public class MainActivityTest {

    private MainActivity activity;
    private TextView textView;

    public static final String GREETINGS = "Hello world!";  

    @Before
    public void setUp() {

        ActionBarSherlock.registerImplementation(ActionBarSherlockRobolectric.class);
        ActionBarSherlock.unregisterImplementation(ActionBarSherlockNative.class);
        ActionBarSherlock.unregisterImplementation(ActionBarSherlockCompat.class);

        activity = new MainActivity();
        activity.onCreate(null);

        textView = (TextView) activity.findViewById(R.id.hello);
    }

    @Test
    public void shouldGreet() {
        assertEquals(GREETINGS, textView.getText());
    }
}

The application is working fine on the device.

What am I missing here?

ps: The full source code is available on github

Edit: Also tested with the code from square/master (2.0 alpha 3 square 5) branch and got the same problem. Checking the LayoutBuilder.constructFragment, I think the problem is that activity.getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(fragment, tag).commit() is not working with SherlockFragment, so fragment.getView() is returning null.

I'm not sure if I can do anything on my side to fix this... I'm already checking if I can fix it on robolectric's side, please let me know if anyone have any tip on this.

Answer 1

You might try using Robolectric 2.0's new ActivityController, which fixes some scheduling/order-of-operations issues that often crop up.

MainActivity activity = Robolectric.buildActivity(MainActivity.class)
                                    .create().get();

It arranges for the main looper to be temporarily paused during the call to onCreate().

Answer 2

Calling

Robolectric.buildActivity(YourActivityClass.class).attach().create().start().resume().get();

will call your Fragment.onCreateView method