Expanding Test Coverage to Multiple Actions and the Spring Controller

TLDR

Unit test coverage for multiple Actions and the CatanController.

Main work

• Using ChatGPT to scaffold additional test files based off of existing test files.
• Debugging issues with @Controller tests (serialization issues).

Challenges

• Copying examples into ChatGPT and copying output from ChatGPT.
  • Should probably explore integrated solutions like Copilot.
  • Also have a graphics card coming, so could potentially run LLMs locally.
• Bizarre behavior from @RequestBody annotation.
  • Test fails because endpoint expects request body to be value rather than {"key": "value"}, even when using a DTO like StartGameDTO.
  • All documents / comments online claim the full JSON string would be expected by Spring, but simple value has been working for my REST calls since project inception.
  • For now, not a big deal and not worth a wild goose chase.

Learnings

• Possible that the HTTPMessageConverter that is being used by Spring under-the-hood could be expecting / determining this bizarre serialization.