Failed to retrieve PlatformTransactionManager for @Transactional test for test context

Question

Whhen trying to test caching capabilities of Hibernate's (version 4) EHCache between transactions - it fails: Failed to retrieve PlatformTransactionManager for @Transactional test for test context.

Test

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = { ApplicationConfig.class, CachingConfig.class }, loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class)
@PersistenceContext
@Transactional
public class EHCacheTest extends AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests {
    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
@Test
    public void testTransactionCaching(){
        Session session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        System.out.println(session.get(CustomerEntity.class, 1));
        Query query = session.createQuery("from CustomerEntity where CustomerEntity.customerId<10").setCacheable(true).setCacheRegion("customer");
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        List<CustomerEntity> customerEntities = query.list();
        System.out.println(customerEntities);

        TestTransaction.flagForCommit();
        TestTransaction.end();

        TestTransaction.start();

        Session sessionNew =  sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        System.out.println(sessionNew.get(CustomerEntity.class, 1));
        Query anotherQuery = sessionNew.createQuery("from CustomerEntity where CustomerEntity.customerId<10");
        anotherQuery.setCacheable(true).setCacheRegion("customer");
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        List<CustomerEntity> customerListfromCache = anotherQuery.list();
        System.out.println(customerListfromCache);

        TestTransaction.flagForCommit();
        TestTransaction.end();
    }
}

The manual programmatic Transaction handling was implemented the way Spring 4.x suggests in documentation.

ApplicationConfig

@Configuration
@EnableTransactionManagement
@EnableJpaRepositories (basePackages = { "com.hibernate.query.performance.persistence" }, transactionManagerRef = "jpaTransactionManager")
@EnableJpaAuditing
@PropertySource({ "classpath:persistence-postgresql.properties" })
@ComponentScan({ "com.hibernate.query.performance.persistence" })
public class ApplicationConfig {

    @Autowired
    private Environment env;

    public ApplicationConfig() {
        super();
    }

    @Bean
    public LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory() {
        final LocalSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory = new LocalSessionFactoryBean();
        sessionFactory.setDataSource(applicationDataSource());
        sessionFactory.setPackagesToScan(new String[] { "com.hibernate.query.performance.persistence.model" });
        sessionFactory.setHibernateProperties(hibernateProperties());

        return sessionFactory;
    }

    @Bean
    public LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean entityManagerFactory() {
        final LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean emf = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
        emf.setDataSource(applicationDataSource());
        emf.setPackagesToScan(new String[] { "com.hibernate.query.performance.persistence.model" });

        final JpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        emf.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
        emf.setJpaProperties(hibernateProperties());

        return emf;
    }

    @Bean
    public DataSource applicationDataSource() {
        final BasicDataSource dataSource = new BasicDataSource();
        dataSource.setDriverClassName(Preconditions.checkNotNull(env.getProperty("jdbc.driverClassName")));
        dataSource.setUrl(Preconditions.checkNotNull(env.getProperty("jdbc.url")));
        dataSource.setUsername(Preconditions.checkNotNull(env.getProperty("jdbc.user")));
        dataSource.setPassword(Preconditions.checkNotNull(env.getProperty("jdbc.pass")));

        return dataSource;
    }

    @Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager hibernateTransactionManager() { // TODO: Really need this?
        final HibernateTransactionManager transactionManager = new HibernateTransactionManager();
        transactionManager.setSessionFactory(sessionFactory().getObject());
        return transactionManager;
    }

    @Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager jpaTransactionManager() { // TODO: Really need this?
        final JpaTransactionManager transactionManager = new JpaTransactionManager(); // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26562787/hibernateexception-couldnt-obtain-transaction-synchronized-session-for-current
        transactionManager.setEntityManagerFactory(entityManagerFactory().getObject());
        return transactionManager;
    }

    @Bean
    public PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor exceptionTranslation() {
        return new PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor();
    }

    private final Properties hibernateProperties() {
        final Properties hibernateProperties = new Properties();
        hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", env.getProperty("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto"));
        hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.dialect", env.getProperty("hibernate.dialect"));

        hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.show_sql", "true");
        hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.format_sql", "true");
        // hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.globally_quoted_identifiers", "true");
        hibernateProperties.setProperty("hibernate.cache.region.factory_class", "org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory");

        // Envers properties
        hibernateProperties.setProperty("org.hibernate.envers.audit_table_suffix", env.getProperty("envers.audit_table_suffix")); // TODO: Really need this?

        return hibernateProperties;
    }
}

CachingConfig

@Configuration
@EnableCaching
public class CachingConfig implements CachingConfigurer {
    @Bean(destroyMethod="shutdown")
    public net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager ehCacheManager() {
        CacheConfiguration cacheConfiguration = new CacheConfiguration();
        cacheConfiguration.setName("myCacheName");
        cacheConfiguration.setMemoryStoreEvictionPolicy("LRU");
        cacheConfiguration.setMaxElementsInMemory(1000);

        net.sf.ehcache.config.Configuration config = new net.sf.ehcache.config.Configuration();
        config.addCache(cacheConfiguration);

        return net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager.create(config);
    }

    @Bean
    @Override
    public CacheManager cacheManager() {
        return new EhCacheCacheManager(ehCacheManager());
    }

    @Override
    public CacheResolver cacheResolver() {
        return null;
    }

    @Bean
    @Override
    public KeyGenerator keyGenerator() {
        return new SimpleKeyGenerator();
    }

    @Override
    public CacheErrorHandler errorHandler() {
        return null;
    }
}

Error

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to retrieve PlatformTransactionManager for @Transactional test for test context [DefaultTestContext@d8355a8 testClass = EHCacheTest, testInstance = com.hibernate.query.performance.EHCacheTest@3532ec19, testMethod = testTransactionCaching@EHCacheTest, testException = [null], mergedContextConfiguration = [MergedContextConfiguration@59fa1d9b testClass = EHCacheTest, locations = '{}', classes = '{class com.hibernate.query.performance.config.ApplicationConfig, class com.hibernate.query.performance.config.CachingConfig}', contextInitializerClasses = '[]', activeProfiles = '{}', propertySourceLocations = '{}', propertySourceProperties = '{}', contextLoader = 'org.springframework.test.context.support.AnnotationConfigContextLoader', parent = [null]]].

How to make it work?

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Update:

Made it work by adding, not sure though if @TestExecutionListeners is really required:

@Transactional(transactionManager = "hibernateTransactionManager")
@TestExecutionListeners({})

Answer 1

@Transactional requires a bean with name transactionManager in your application context if not specified explictly. Specify the transaction manager you want to use with your test using the @Transaction annotation value attribute

For example if you want to use hibernateTransactionManager specify this as

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes = { ApplicationConfig.class, CachingConfig.class }, loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class)
@PersistenceContext
@Transactional("hibernateTransactionManager")
public class EHCacheTest extends AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests {
}

Otherwise rename the transaction manager you want to use to have the default name transactionManager

@Bean
    public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager() { // TODO: Really need this?
        final HibernateTransactionManager transactionManager = new HibernateTransactionManager();
        transactionManager.setSessionFactory(sessionFactory().getObject());
        return transactionManager;
    }