org.springframework.test.context

Annotation Type ActiveProfiles

@Documented
 @Inherited
 @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
 @Target(value=TYPE)
public @interface ActiveProfiles

ActiveProfiles is a class-level annotation that is used to declare which active bean definition profiles should be used when loading an ApplicationContext for test classes.

As of Spring Framework 4.0, this annotation may be used as a meta-annotation to create custom composed annotations.

Since:

3.1

Author:

Sam Brannen

See Also:

SmartContextLoader, MergedContextConfiguration, ContextConfiguration, ActiveProfilesResolver, ApplicationContext, Profile

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
boolean	inheritProfiles Whether or not bean definition profiles from superclasses should be inherited.
String[]	profiles The bean definition profiles to activate.
Class<? extends ActiveProfilesResolver>	resolver The type of ActiveProfilesResolver to use for resolving the active bean definition profiles programmatically.
String[]	value Alias for profiles().

Element Detail

value

public abstract String[] value

Alias for profiles().

This attribute may not be used in conjunction with profiles() or resolver(), but it may be used instead of them.

Default:

{}

profiles

public abstract String[] profiles

The bean definition profiles to activate.

This attribute may not be used in conjunction with value() or resolver(), but it may be used instead of them.

Default:

{}

resolver

public abstract Class<? extends ActiveProfilesResolver> resolver

The type of ActiveProfilesResolver to use for resolving the active bean definition profiles programmatically.

This attribute may not be used in conjunction with profiles() or value(), but it may be used instead of them in order to resolve the active profiles programmatically.

Since:

4.0

See Also:

ActiveProfilesResolver

Default:

org.springframework.test.context.ActiveProfilesResolver.class

inheritProfiles

public abstract boolean inheritProfiles

Whether or not bean definition profiles from superclasses should be inherited.

The default value is true, which means that a test class will inherit bean definition profiles defined by a test superclass. Specifically, the bean definition profiles for a test class will be appended to the list of bean definition profiles defined by a test superclass. Thus, subclasses have the option of extending the list of bean definition profiles.

If inheritProfiles is set to false, the bean definition profiles for the test class will shadow and effectively replace any bean definition profiles defined by a superclass.

In the following example, the ApplicationContext for BaseTest will be loaded using only the "base" bean definition profile; beans defined in the "extended" profile will therefore not be loaded. In contrast, the ApplicationContext for ExtendedTest will be loaded using the "base" and "extended" bean definition profiles.

 @ActiveProfiles("base")
 @ContextConfiguration
 public class BaseTest {
     // ...
 }

 @ActiveProfiles("extended")
 @ContextConfiguration
 public class ExtendedTest extends BaseTest {
     // ...
 }
 

Note: @ActiveProfiles can be used when loading an ApplicationContext from path-based resource locations or annotated classes.

See Also:

ContextConfiguration.locations(), ContextConfiguration.classes(), ContextConfiguration.inheritLocations()

Default:

true