Testing with Spring and Maven: applicationContext

Question

Seems that question old as world, but I still can\'t find out the solution..

I\'m trying to run simple test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
         


        

Answer 1

I think Maven simply didn't include the XML file from main/resources.

You could try to specify explicitly what to include in the pom.xml.

Let me know if the following configuration has worked:

    <!-- Add this directly after the <build>-opening tag -->
    <resources>
        <resource>
            <filtering>true</filtering>
            <directory>src/test/resources</directory>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*.properties</include>
            </includes>
            <excludes>
                <exclude>**/*local.properties</exclude>
            </excludes>
        </resource>
        <resource>
            <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
            <includes>
                <include>**/*.properties</include>
                <include>**/*.xml</include>
            </includes>
        </resource>
    </resources>

This is something I use in your case. You can edit this if you don't have properties files to be included.

Answer 2

My test context file is under src\test\resources\spring folder. I managed to load the context with

@ContextConfiguration(locations={"classpath:**/test-context.xml"})

But reference (in test-context.xml) to the application-context.xml which is under src\main\resources\spring folder failed

I managed to load the application-context by creating a ClassPathXmlApplicationContext in the test class with

ClassPathXmlApplicationContext appContext=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[]{"classpath:spring/application-context.xml","classpath:spring/model-context.xml"});

Let me know if this helps or might create any other issues.

Answer 3

your application context must be included in classpath and put * :

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:*/application-context.xml" })