org.springframework.boot.test

Class SpringApplicationContextLoader

java.lang.Object

AbstractContextLoader

org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationContextLoader

public class SpringApplicationContextLoader
extends AbstractContextLoader

A ContextLoader that can be used to test Spring Boot applications (those that normally startup using SpringApplication). Normally never starts an embedded web server, but detects the @WebAppConfiguration annotation on the test class and only creates a web application context if it is present. Non-web features, like a repository layer, can be tested cleanly by simply not marking the test class @WebAppConfiguration.

If you want to start a web server, mark the test class as @WebAppConfiguration @IntegrationTest. This is useful for testing HTTP endpoints using TestRestTemplate (for instance), especially since you can @Autowired application context components into your test case to see the internal effects of HTTP requests directly.

If @ActiveProfiles are provided in the test class they will be used to create the application context.

Author:

Dave Syer

See Also:

IntegrationTest

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SpringApplicationContextLoader()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected Class<?>[]	detectDefaultConfigurationClasses(Class<?> declaringClass) Detect the default configuration classes for the supplied test class.
protected String	getResourceSuffix()
protected SpringApplication	getSpringApplication() Builds new SpringApplication instance.
ApplicationContext	loadContext(MergedContextConfiguration config)
ApplicationContext	loadContext(String... locations)
void	processContextConfiguration(ContextConfigurationAttributes configAttributes)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SpringApplicationContextLoader

public SpringApplicationContextLoader()

Method Detail

loadContext

public ApplicationContext loadContext(MergedContextConfiguration config)
                               throws Exception

Throws:

Exception

processContextConfiguration

public void processContextConfiguration(ContextConfigurationAttributes configAttributes)

getSpringApplication

protected SpringApplication getSpringApplication()

Builds new SpringApplication instance. You can override this method to add custom behaviour

Returns:

SpringApplication instance

detectDefaultConfigurationClasses

protected Class<?>[] detectDefaultConfigurationClasses(Class<?> declaringClass)

Detect the default configuration classes for the supplied test class. By default simply delegates to AnnotationConfigContextLoaderUtils#detectDefaultConfigurationClasses .

Parameters:

declaringClass - the test class that declared @ContextConfiguration

Returns:

an array of default configuration classes, potentially empty but never null

See Also:

AnnotationConfigContextLoaderUtils

loadContext

public ApplicationContext loadContext(String... locations)
                               throws Exception

Throws:

Exception

getResourceSuffix

protected String getResourceSuffix()