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Working with Web Mocks

To provide comprehensive web testing support, the TestContext framework has a ServletTestExecutionListener that is enabled by default. When testing against a WebApplicationContext, this TestExecutionListener sets up default thread-local state by using Spring Web’s RequestContextHolder before each test method and creates a MockHttpServletRequest, a MockHttpServletResponse, and a ServletWebRequest based on the base resource path configured with @WebAppConfiguration. ServletTestExecutionListener also ensures that the MockHttpServletResponse and ServletWebRequest can be injected into the test instance, and, once the test is complete, it cleans up thread-local state.

Once you have a WebApplicationContext loaded for your test, you might find that you need to interact with the web mocks — for example, to set up your test fixture or to perform assertions after invoking your web component. The following example shows which mocks can be autowired into your test instance. Note that the WebApplicationContext and MockServletContext are both cached across the test suite, whereas the other mocks are managed per test method by the ServletTestExecutionListener.

  • Java

  • Kotlin

@SpringJUnitWebConfig
class WacTests {

	@Autowired
	WebApplicationContext wac; // cached

	@Autowired
	MockServletContext servletContext; // cached

	@Autowired
	MockHttpSession session;

	@Autowired
	MockHttpServletRequest request;

	@Autowired
	MockHttpServletResponse response;

	@Autowired
	ServletWebRequest webRequest;

	//...
}
@SpringJUnitWebConfig
class WacTests {

	@Autowired
	lateinit var wac: WebApplicationContext // cached

	@Autowired
	lateinit var servletContext: MockServletContext // cached

	@Autowired
	lateinit var session: MockHttpSession

	@Autowired
	lateinit var request: MockHttpServletRequest

	@Autowired
	lateinit var response: MockHttpServletResponse

	@Autowired
	lateinit var webRequest: ServletWebRequest

	//...
}