request scoped beans in spring testing

Question

I would like to make use of request scoped beans in my app. I use JUnit4 for testing. If I try to create one in a test like this:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4Clas         


        

Answer 1

A solution, tested with Spring 4, for when you require request-scoped beans but aren't making any requests via MockMVC, etc.

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(/* ... */)
public class Tests {

    @Autowired
    private GenericApplicationContext context;

    @Before
    public void defineRequestScope() {
        context.getBeanFactory().registerScope(
            WebApplicationContext.SCOPE_REQUEST, new RequestScope());
        RequestContextHolder.setRequestAttributes(
            new ServletRequestAttributes(new MockHttpServletRequest()));
    }

    // ...