org.springframework.test
Class AbstractSpringContextTests

java.lang.Object
  junit.framework.Assert
      junit.framework.TestCase
          org.springframework.test.AbstractSpringContextTests

All Implemented Interfaces:

Test

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests

public abstract class AbstractSpringContextTests
extends TestCase

Superclass for JUnit test cases using a Spring context.

Maintains a static cache of contexts by key. This has significant performance benefit if initializing the context would take time. While initializing a Spring context itself is very quick, some beans in a context, such as a LocalSessionFactoryBean for working with Hibernate, may take time to initialize. Hence it often makes sense to do that initializing once.

Normally you won't extend this class directly, but extend one of its subclasses.

Since:

1.1.1

Author:

Rod Johnson

See Also:

AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests, AbstractTransactionalSpringContextTests, AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContextTests

Field Summary

protected Log

logger Logger available to subclasses.

Constructor Summary

AbstractSpringContextTests()
Default constructor for AbstractSpringContextTests.

AbstractSpringContextTests(String name)
Constructor for AbstractSpringContextTests with a JUnit name.

Method Summary

protected String	contextKeyString(Object contextKey) Subclasses can override this to return a String representation of their contextKey for use in logging
protected ConfigurableApplicationContext	getContext(Object key)
protected boolean	hasCachedContext(Object contextKey)
protected ConfigurableApplicationContext	loadContext(Object key)
protected ConfigurableApplicationContext	loadContextLocations(String[] locations) Subclasses can invoke this to get a context key for the given location.
protected void	setDirty(String[] locations) Set custom locations dirty.

Methods inherited from class junit.framework.TestCase

countTestCases, createResult, getName, run, run, runBare, runTest, setName, setUp, tearDown, toString

Methods inherited from class junit.framework.Assert

assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertEquals, assertFalse, assertFalse, assertNotNull, assertNotNull, assertNotSame, assertNotSame, assertNull, assertNull, assertSame, assertSame, assertTrue, assertTrue, fail, fail

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

logger

protected final Log logger

Logger available to subclasses.

Constructor Detail

AbstractSpringContextTests

public AbstractSpringContextTests()

Default constructor for AbstractSpringContextTests.

AbstractSpringContextTests

public AbstractSpringContextTests(String name)

Constructor for AbstractSpringContextTests with a JUnit name.

Method Detail

setDirty

protected void setDirty(String[] locations)

Set custom locations dirty. This will cause them to be reloaded from the cache before the next test case is executed.

Call this method only if you change the state of a singleton bean, potentially affecting future tests.

hasCachedContext

protected boolean hasCachedContext(Object contextKey)

contextKeyString

protected String contextKeyString(Object contextKey)

Subclasses can override this to return a String representation of their contextKey for use in logging

getContext

protected ConfigurableApplicationContext getContext(Object key)

loadContextLocations

protected ConfigurableApplicationContext loadContextLocations(String[] locations)

Subclasses can invoke this to get a context key for the given location. This doesn't affect the applicationContext instance variable in this class. Dependency Injection cannot be applied from such contexts.

loadContext

protected ConfigurableApplicationContext loadContext(Object key)