Spring not autowiring in unit tests with JUnit

Question

I test the following DAO with JUnit:

@Repository
public class MyDao {

    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    // Other stuff here

}
         


        

Answer 1

You need to add annotations to the Junit class, telling it to use the SpringJunitRunner. The ones you want are:

@ContextConfiguration("/test-context.xml")
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

This tells Junit to use the test-context.xml file in same directory as your test. This file should be similar to the real context.xml you're using for spring, but pointing to test resources, naturally.