RE: [Springframework-developer] Injecting Dependencies into Unit Test classes

[Dion A. <di...@al...>]

The class is working perfectly for me. Thanks again.

There is one thing I noticed:

The class does a:

this.applicationContext.getBeanFactory().autowireBeanProperties(this, 
   AutowireCapableBeanFactory.AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE, true); 

Maybe I am wrong, but I think there are some use cases where it would be
nice to have auto-wiring by name.

In fact, my use case would want to be something totally different:

Testing Web Actions: 

I want to put in my own BaseTestCase class:

    private Action action;

    public Action getAction() {
        return action;
    }

    public void setAction(Action action) {
        this.action = action;
    }

Then I want to wire up the actual action via:

<bean id="addSiteTest" class="foo.web.actions.AddSiteTest">
    <property name="action"><ref bean="addSiteAction"/></property>
</bean>

addSiteAction is a bean id setup in another applicationContext.xml.

So, my ideal would be for Spring to:

- Be able to look in the context to find a bean from the class of the test
(foo.web.actions.AddSiteTest)
- Then set the properties on itself, based on the explicit wiring(
this.setAction( ... Get the addSiteAction bean ... )

Am I thinking about this correctly?

At the moment I have each test class with methods like:

    //
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Spring Dependencies: BaseTestCase will autowire by type
    //
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    private AddSite action;

    public AddSite getAction() {
        return action;
    }

    public void setAction(AddSite action) {
        this.action = action;
    }

Cheers guys!

D



-----Original Message-----
From: Dmitriy Kopylenko [mailto:dko...@ru...] 
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 1:36 PM
To: spr...@li...
Subject: Re: [Springframework-developer] Injecting Dependencies into Unit
Test classes

Colin,

right at the same minute :-)

Colin Sampaleanu wrote:

> Dion,
>
> This already exists. Take a look at the org.springframework.test 
> package which is included with spring-mock.jar. In there you're find 
> AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests,
> AbstractTransactionalSpringContextTests, and 
> AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContextTests. They can all inject 
> dependencies via setter injection, or alternately field injection, and 
> the latter two classes also create a transaction around each test, and 
> roll back after each test (by default), so that your database tests 
> can do any kind of db work they need to, verify the results, and then 
> the rollback ensures the original state of the db isn't changed.
>
> Colin
>
> Dion Almaer wrote:
>
>> Hi guys -
>>
>> Rather than having FooTest.java do getBean("someBean") it would be 
>> nice to just have setFooBean(...) on the test itself, and have the 
>> dependencies injected.
>>
>> I am wondering if people have done this before, and if so, how they 
>> went about it.
>>
>> Can you just create a base class which bootstraps everything and 
>> injects the dependencies on the subclass itself?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dion
>>
>>
>>
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