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Test Utilities
A few test utility classes that are generally useful when testing your application are packaged as part of spring-boot
.
ConfigDataApplicationContextInitializer
ConfigDataApplicationContextInitializer
is an ApplicationContextInitializer
that you can apply to your tests to load Spring Boot application.properties
files.
You can use it when you do not need the full set of features provided by @SpringBootTest
, as shown in the following example:
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.ConfigDataApplicationContextInitializer;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
@ContextConfiguration(classes = Config.class, initializers = ConfigDataApplicationContextInitializer.class)
class MyConfigFileTests {
// ...
}
Using ConfigDataApplicationContextInitializer alone does not provide support for @Value("${…}") injection.
Its only job is to ensure that application.properties files are loaded into Spring’s Environment .
For @Value support, you need to either additionally configure a PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer or use @SpringBootTest , which auto-configures one for you.
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TestPropertyValues
TestPropertyValues
lets you quickly add properties to a ConfigurableEnvironment
or ConfigurableApplicationContext
.
You can call it with key=value
strings, as follows:
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.boot.test.util.TestPropertyValues;
import org.springframework.mock.env.MockEnvironment;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
class MyEnvironmentTests {
@Test
void testPropertySources() {
MockEnvironment environment = new MockEnvironment();
TestPropertyValues.of("org=Spring", "name=Boot").applyTo(environment);
assertThat(environment.getProperty("name")).isEqualTo("Boot");
}
}
OutputCapture
OutputCapture
is a JUnit Extension
that you can use to capture System.out
and System.err
output.
To use it, add @ExtendWith(OutputCaptureExtension.class)
and inject CapturedOutput
as an argument to your test class constructor or test method as follows:
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
import org.springframework.boot.test.system.CapturedOutput;
import org.springframework.boot.test.system.OutputCaptureExtension;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
@ExtendWith(OutputCaptureExtension.class)
class MyOutputCaptureTests {
@Test
void testName(CapturedOutput output) {
System.out.println("Hello World!");
assertThat(output).contains("World");
}
}
TestRestTemplate
TestRestTemplate
is a convenience alternative to Spring’s RestTemplate
that is useful in integration tests.
You can get a vanilla template or one that sends Basic HTTP authentication (with a username and password).
In either case, the template is fault tolerant.
This means that it behaves in a test-friendly way by not throwing exceptions on 4xx and 5xx errors.
Instead, such errors can be detected through the returned ResponseEntity
and its status code.
Spring Framework 5.0 provides a new WebTestClient that works for WebFlux integration tests and both WebFlux and MVC end-to-end testing.
It provides a fluent API for assertions, unlike TestRestTemplate .
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It is recommended, but not mandatory, to use the Apache HTTP Client (version 5.1 or better).
If you have that on your classpath, the TestRestTemplate
responds by configuring the client appropriately.
If you do use Apache’s HTTP client, some additional test-friendly features are enabled:
-
Redirects are not followed (so you can assert the response location).
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Cookies are ignored (so the template is stateless).
TestRestTemplate
can be instantiated directly in your integration tests, as shown in the following example:
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
class MyTests {
private final TestRestTemplate template = new TestRestTemplate();
@Test
void testRequest() {
ResponseEntity<String> headers = this.template.getForEntity("https://myhost.example.com/example", String.class);
assertThat(headers.getHeaders().getLocation()).hasHost("other.example.com");
}
}
Alternatively, if you use the @SpringBootTest
annotation with WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT
or WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT
, you can inject a fully configured TestRestTemplate
and start using it.
If necessary, additional customizations can be applied through the RestTemplateBuilder
bean.
Any URLs that do not specify a host and port automatically connect to the embedded server, as shown in the following example:
import java.time.Duration;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.TestConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate;
import org.springframework.boot.web.client.RestTemplateBuilder;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
class MySpringBootTests {
@Autowired
private TestRestTemplate template;
@Test
void testRequest() {
HttpHeaders headers = this.template.getForEntity("/example", String.class).getHeaders();
assertThat(headers.getLocation()).hasHost("other.example.com");
}
@TestConfiguration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
static class RestTemplateBuilderConfiguration {
@Bean
RestTemplateBuilder restTemplateBuilder() {
return new RestTemplateBuilder().setConnectTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(1))
.setReadTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(1));
}
}
}