Yep. The picklist is on another SObject other than that of the standard controller that I am creating my extension for.

public class StockOrderPageExtension { public Stock_Order__c contextStockOrder; //The current Stock Order referenced from the VF page public String selectedCategory { get; set; } //the currently selected product category public String selectedProduct { get; set; } //Id of the currently selected product public Boolean isProductCategoryNotNone { get; set; } //Tells us if the selected Category is --None-- public Boolean showSKUPageBlockSection { get; set; } public Boolean showSaveMessage { get; set; } public String saveMessageTitle { get; set; } public String saveMessageDetail { get; set; } public List<Order_Line_Detail__c> orderDetailsList; public List<Stock_Product__c> stockProducts = new List<Stock_Product__c>(); public List<SelectOption> allProductCategories = new List<SelectOption>(); //Houses all the product categories public List<SelectOption> allProducts = new List<SelectOption>(); //Houses all the products public List<SKU__c> skuRecordsList = new List<SKU__c>(); //Houses SKU Records for the product in context //mandatory controller extension constructor... public StockOrderPageExtension(ApexPages.StandardController stdController) { this.contextStockOrder = (Stock_Order__c) stdController.getRecord(); queryForProductCategories(); showSaveMessage = false; } //This method queries for all the current Stock product Categories... public void queryForProductCategories() { //Get the Field Token Schema.SObjectField sf = Stock_Product__c.Product_Type__c; //Call describe on the Field Token Schema.DescribeFieldResult sdfr = sf.getDescribe(); //add the defaul sf selectlist value to //the SelectOption list... allProductCategories.add(new SelectOption('null','--None--')); for( Schema.PicklistEntry plentry : sdfr.getPicklistValues()) allProductCategories.add(new SelectOption(plentry.getValue(),plentry.getLabel())); } ... ... /* * Define getters & setters */ public List<SelectOption> getAllProductCategories() { return allProductCategories; } }

//Create some Product Categories Stock_Product__c stockProduct = new Stock_Product__c(name='mac', Product_Type__c='Notebook'); //insert these products try { insert stockProduct; }catch(DMLException dmle) { System.debug('***** THERE WAS AN ERROR CREATING TEST PRODUCTS: ' + dmle.getMessage()); }

 This won't work because the actual controller code (Shown in previous post) queries the database and the product I create here is not committed to the database, so i cant use it.

Regards

I'm not an expert here but I think if you refactored your code to this:

public List<SelectOption> getProductCategories() { List<SelectOption> options = new List<SelectOption>(); //Get the Field Token Schema.SObjectField sf = Stock_Product__c.Product_Type__c; //Call describe on the Field Token Schema.DescribeFieldResult sdfr = sf.getDescribe(); //add the defaul sf selectlist value to //the SelectOption list... options.add(new SelectOption('null','--None--')); for( Schema.PicklistEntry plentry : sdfr.getPicklistValues()) options.add(new SelectOption(plentry.getValue(),plentry.getLabel())); return options; } public String productCategory { get {return productCategory;} set {productCategory = value;}}

 And your VF would look something like this:

<apex:selectList value="{!ProductCategories}" id="ProductCategories" multiselect="false" size="1"> <apex:selectOptions value="{!productcategory}"/> </apex:selectList>

If I'm reading your post correctly, there may be some confusion about unit testing. SObjects created in tests are committed to the database for the purpose/duration of that test and then backed out at the conclusion. I don't quite understand why you can't create a Stock_Product__c in your test.

EDIT: You don't have to hardcode picklist values in your test, there is no reason why you can't perform a describe call in your test too.