Recently I had to access the XML-RPC WordPress API for a small project. Luckily with Groovy we can access a XML-RPC server in a Groovy way. We need to use the Groovy XML-RPC module, which is a separate dependency. The module provides code to write a XML-RPC server, but also code to access a XML-RPC server as client. We use the class XMLRPCServerProxy in the package groovy.net.xmlrpc to act as a client to a XML-RPC API. The XMLRPCServerProxy class only needs to know the URL to access the API. All API methods are dynamically dispatched to the server, so it is very flexible.

In the following Groovy script we use the WordPress XML-RPC API to access posts:

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NOTE: ngImprovedTesting is AngularJS library to make mock testing AngularJS code more easy.
For more information about ngImprovedTesting be sure to read its (updated) introductory blog post.

Just released version 0.3 ngImprovedTesting with a much improved ModuleBuilder. Prior to 0.3 usage of ngImprovedTesting might be troublesome due to fact that the ModuleBuilder:

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Spock supports JUnit rules out of the box. We simply add a rule with the @Rule annotation to our Spock specification and the rule can be used just like in a JUnit test. The Spring Boot project contains a JUnit rule OutputCapture to capture the output of System.out and System.err.

In the following example specification we apply the OutputCapture rule and use it in two feature methods:

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