@WebAppConfiguration not injected

Question

I am trying to create spring-mvc tests using Spring 3.2.1. Following some tutorials, I thought this would be straight-forward.

Here is my test:

@RunWith( SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class )
@ContextConfiguration( loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class, classes = { JpaTestConfig.class } )
@WebAppConfiguration
public class HomeControllerTest {

    @Resource
    private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext;

    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Test
    public void testRoot() throws Exception {
        mockMvc.perform(get("/").accept(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN)).andDo(print())
            // print the request/response in the console
            .andExpect(status().isOk()).andExpect(content().contentType(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN))
            .andExpect(content().string("Hello World!"));
    }

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(webApplicationContext).build();
    }
}

Here is my relevant pom.xml:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
    <artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
    <version>1.3</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>junit</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
    <version>4.10</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
    <exclusion>
        <artifactId>hamcrest-core</artifactId>
        <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
    </exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
    <version>3.2.1.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

I have the following test configuration class:

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@ComponentScan( basePackages = { "com.myproject.service", "com.myproject.utility",
        "com.myproject.controller" } )
@ImportResource( "classpath:applicationContext.xml" )
public class JpaTestConfig {

    @Bean
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactoryBean() {
    ...
    }

    // various other services/datasource but not controllers
}

It is my understanding that adding @WebAppConfiguration will force Spring to inject it. But when I run this test from within Eclipse I get:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [org.springframework.web.context.WebApplicationContext] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency. Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)} at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoSuchBeanDefinitionException(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:967) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:837) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:749) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:486)

Update - I had to change my Test Java Configuration class

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
@ComponentScan( basePackages = { "...." } )
@EnableTransactionManagement
@ImportResource( "classpath:applicationContext.xml" )
public class JpaTestConfig extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport {

However, the problem is now that I can call my REST service, but it is invoking some other services, including database calls. What is the preferred way to just test the call and a mocked response. I would like to test valid and invalid conditions.

Answer 1

In my case problem has been solved by replacing:

@ContextConfiguration(loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class, classes = { ... })

with

@ContextConfiguration(loader = AnnotationConfigWebContextLoader.class, classes = { ... })

Notice the Web in the loader class name. With the previous loader, the GenericApplicationContext has been injected despite @WebAppConfiguration annotation.