Spring @ContextConfiguration how to put the right location for the xml

Question

Our Tests look like this (using Maven and Spring 3.1):

@ContextConfiguration
(
  {
   "classpath:beans.xml",
   "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml",
   "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/dispatcher-data-servlet.xml",
   "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/dispatcher-servlet.xml"
  }
)
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class CCustomerCtrlTest
{
  @Resource private ApplicationContext m_oApplicationContext;
  @Autowired private RequestMappingHandlerAdapter m_oHandlerAdapter;
  @Autowired private RequestMappingHandlerMapping m_oHandlerMapping;
  private MockHttpServletRequest m_oRequest;
  private MockHttpServletResponse m_oResp;
  private CCustomerCtrl m_oCtrl;

// more code ....
}

That's the reason not to put configuration into webapp.

As far as I know, there are no good ways to access files in webapp folder from the unit tests. You can put your configuration into src/main/resources instead, so that you can access it from your unit tests (as described in the docs), as well as from the webapp (using classpath: prefix in contextConfigLocation).

See also:

• 4.7 Application contexts and Resource paths

This is a maven specific problem I think. Maven does not copy the files form /src/main/resources to the target-test folder. You will have to do this yourself by configuring the resources plugin, if you absolutely want to go this way.

An easier way is to instead put a test specific context definition in the /src/test/resources directory and load via:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:mycontext.xml" })

Simple solution is

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml" })

from spring forum

We Use:

@ContextConfiguration(locations="file:WebContent/WEB-INF/spitterMVC-servlet.xml")

the project is a eclipse dynamic web project, then the path is:

{project name}/WebContent/WEB-INF/spitterMVC-servlet.xml

Suppose you are going to create a test-context.xml which is independent from app-context.xml for testing, put test-context.xml under /src/test/resources. In the test class, have the @ContextConfiguration annotation on top of the class definition.

@ContextConfiguration(locations = "/test-context.xml")
public class MyTests {
    ...
}

Spring document Context management