How to resolve "You have not started an Objectify context" in JUnit?

Question

I've got some Objectify test code running in JUnit and I'm getting this error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: You have not started an Objectify context. You are probably missing the ObjectifyFilter. If you are not running in the context of an http request, see the ObjectifyService.run() method.
    at com.googlecode.objectify.ObjectifyService.ofy(ObjectifyService.java:44)
    at com.googlecode.objectify.impl.ref.LiveRef.<init>(LiveRef.java:31)
    at com.googlecode.objectify.Ref.create(Ref.java:26)
    at com.googlecode.objectify.Ref.create(Ref.java:32)
    at com.netbase.followerdownloader.repository.DownloadTaskRepositoryImpl.create(DownloadTaskRepositoryImpl.java:35)
    at com.netbase.followerdownloader.repository.DownloadTaskRepositoryImplTest.setUp(DownloadTaskRepositoryImplTest.java:45)

How do I resolve this for test code?

Answer 1

I also had this issue and noticed that I had not added the ObjectifyFilter to my web.xml

<filter>
    <filter-name>ObjectifyFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.googlecode.objectify.ObjectifyFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>ObjectifyFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

I also had to include Objectify and guava jars in my WEB-INF>lib directory and include them in my build path.

Answer 2

I was facing the same error and this solusion worked for me

I have an app based on Endpoints that uses Objectify. When I leave it with the default/automatic scaling, everything works great. Once I enable basic scaling, though, I get the following exception when executing the endpoint method:

[INFO] java.lang.IllegalStateException: You have not started an Objectify context. You are probably missing the ObjectifyFilter. If you are not running in the context of an http request, see the ObjectifyService.run() method.
[INFO]  at com.googlecode.objectify.ObjectifyService.ofy(ObjectifyService.java:44)
[INFO]  at com.myco.myapp.dao.datastore.OfyService.ofy(OfyService.java:62)

The good news is that this goes away when you enable RequestDispatcher support in the web.xml file like so. I think this is a documentation issue, then, but I didn't know if everyone would agree if I edited the Wiki page directly. Here is the proposed web.xml entry, which worked for me:

   <filter>
    <filter-name>ObjectifyFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>com.googlecode.objectify.ObjectifyFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>ObjectifyFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    <dispatcher>REQUEST</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>INCLUDE</dispatcher>
    <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher>
</filter-mapping>

Answer 3

Jeff Schnitzer answered this here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/objectify-appengine/8HinahG7irg. That link points to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/objectify-appengine/O4FHC_i7EGk where Jeff suggests the following quick and dirty workaround:

• My @BeforeMethod starts an objectify context (ObjectifyService.begin())

• My @AfterMethod closes the objectify context

Jeff suggests we use ObjectifyService.run() instead but admits it's more work.

Here's how my implementation looks:

public class DownloadTaskRepositoryImplTest {
    // maximum eventual consistency (see https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/localunittesting)
    private final LocalServiceTestHelper helper =
        new LocalServiceTestHelper(new LocalDatastoreServiceTestConfig()
            .setDefaultHighRepJobPolicyUnappliedJobPercentage(100));

    private Closeable closeable;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        helper.setUp();
        ObjectifyRegistrar.registerDataModel();
        closeable = ObjectifyService.begin();
    }

    @After
    public void tearDown() {
        closeable.close();

        helper.tearDown();
    }