diff -r 058bb3dc685f -r 0b59724cb3f2 cubicweb/web/test/unittest_breadcrumbs.py
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+++ b/cubicweb/web/test/unittest_breadcrumbs.py	Sat Jan 16 13:48:51 2016 +0100
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+# copyright 2003-2014 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
+# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
+#
+# This file is part of CubicWeb.
+#
+# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
+# details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
+# with CubicWeb.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from cubicweb.devtools.testlib import CubicWebTC
+
+
+class BreadCrumbsTC(CubicWebTC):
+
+    def test_base(self):
+        with self.admin_access.web_request() as req:
+            f1 = req.create_entity('Folder', name=u'par&ent')
+            f2 = req.create_entity('Folder', name=u'chi&ld')
+            req.cnx.execute('SET F2 filed_under F1 WHERE F1 eid %(f1)s, F2 eid %(f2)s',
+                            {'f1' : f1.eid, 'f2' : f2.eid})
+            req.cnx.commit()
+            self.assertEqual(f2.view('breadcrumbs'),
+                             '<a href="http://testing.fr/cubicweb/folder/%s" title="">'
+                             'chi&amp;ld</a>' % f2.eid)
+            childrset = f2.as_rset()
+            ibc = self.vreg['ctxcomponents'].select('breadcrumbs', req, rset=childrset)
+            l = []
+            ibc.render(l.append)
+            self.assertMultiLineEqual('<span id="breadcrumbs" class="pathbar">&#160;&gt;&#160;'
+                                      '<a href="http://testing.fr/cubicweb/Folder">Folder_plural</a>'
+                                      '&#160;&gt;&#160;<a href="http://testing.fr/cubicweb/folder/%s" '
+                                      'title="">par&amp;ent</a>&#160;&gt;&#160;\n'
+                                      '<a href="http://testing.fr/cubicweb/folder/%s" title="">'
+                                      'chi&amp;ld</a></span>' % (f1.eid, f2.eid),
+                                      ''.join(l))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    from logilab.common.testlib import unittest_main
+    unittest_main()