Improve testing of cookies in functional tests:

- cookies can be set using string or symbol keys
- cookies are preserved across calls to get, post, etc.
- cookie names and values are escaped
- cookies can be cleared using @request.cookies.clear

[#6272 state:resolved]

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_case.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_case.rb
index 0f43527a56..bc4f8bb9ce 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_case.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/test_case.rb
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ module ActionController
     end
 
     def recycle!
+      write_cookies!
+      @env.delete('HTTP_COOKIE') if @cookies.blank?
+      @env.delete('action_dispatch.cookies')
+      @cookies = nil
       @formats = nil
       @env.delete_if { |k, v| k =~ /^(action_dispatch|rack)\.request/ }
       @env.delete_if { |k, v| k =~ /^action_dispatch\.rescue/ }
@@ -301,7 +305,11 @@ module ActionController
   # and cookies, though. For sessions, you just do:
   #
   #   @request.session[:key] = "value"
-  #   @request.cookies["key"] = "value"
+  #   @request.cookies[:key] = "value"
+  #
+  # To clear the cookies for a test just clear the request's cookies hash:
+  #
+  #   @request.cookies.clear
   #
   # == \Testing named routes
   #
@@ -416,6 +424,7 @@ module ActionController
         @controller.process_with_new_base_test(@request, @response)
         @assigns = @controller.respond_to?(:view_assigns) ? @controller.view_assigns : {}
         @request.session.delete('flash') if @request.session['flash'].blank?
+        @request.cookies.merge!(@response.cookies)
         @response
       end