How to exclude *AutoConfiguration classes in Spring Boot JUnit tests?

Question

I tried:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude=CrshAutoConfiguration.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Appl         


        

Answer 1

I had a similar use case where I wanted to test a Spring Boot configured repository in isolation (in my case without Spring Security autoconfiguration which was failing my test). @SpringApplicationConfiguration uses SpringApplicationContextLoader and that has a JavaDoc stating

Can be used to test non-web features (like a repository layer) or start an fully-configured embedded servlet container.

However, like yourself, I could not work out how you are meant to configure the test to only test the repository layer using the main configuration entry point i.e. using your approach of @SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Application.class).

My solution was to create a completely new application context exclusive for testing. So in src/test/java I have two files in a sub-package called repo

1. RepoIntegrationTest.java
2. TestRepoConfig.java

where RepoIntegrationTest.java has

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = TestRepoConfig.class)
public class RepoIntegrationTest {

and TestRepoConfig.java has

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = SecurityAutoConfiguration.class)
public class TestRepoConfig {

It got me out of trouble but it would be really useful if anyone from the Spring Boot team could provide an alternative recommended solution