Spring / Hibernate / JUnit - No Hibernate Session bound to Thread

Question

I\'m trying to access the current hibernate session in a test case, and getting the following error:

org.hibernate.HibernateException: No Hibernate

Answer 1

Please refer to the Spring documentation. There is a whole chapter on testing, and a section on transaction management:

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.x/spring-framework-reference/html/testing.html#testing-tx

I've had success extending AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests, but there's a workaround:

TransactionTemplate transactionTemplate = new TransactionTemplate(transactionManager);
transactionTemplate.execute(new TransactionCallbackWithoutResult() {
    @Override
    protected void doInTransactionWithoutResult(TransactionStatus status) {
        // DAO has access to the session through sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
        myDao.findSomething(id);
    }
});