Spring profiles and testing

Question

I've got a web application where I have the typical problem that it requires different configuration files for different environments. Some configuration is placed in the application server as JNDI datasources, however some configuration stays in property files.

Therefore I want to use the Spring profiles feature.

My problem is that I don't get the test case running.

context.xml:

<context:property-placeholder    location="classpath:META-INF/spring/config_${spring.profiles.active}.properties"/> 

Test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) @TestExecutionListeners({     TestPreperationExecutionListener.class     }) @Transactional @ActiveProfiles(profiles = "localtest") @ContextConfiguration(locations = {     "classpath:context.xml" }) public class TestContext {    @Test   public void testContext(){    } } 

The problem seems to be that the variable for loading the profile isn't resolved:

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [META-INF/spring/config_${spring.profiles.active}.properties] cannot be opened because it does not exist at org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource.getInputStream(ClassPathResource.java:157) at org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertiesLoaderSupport.loadProperties(PropertiesLoaderSupport.java:181) at org.springframework.core.io.support.PropertiesLoaderSupport.mergeProperties(PropertiesLoaderSupport.java:161) at org.springframework.context.support.PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer.postProcessBeanFactory(PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer.java:138) ... 31 more 

The current profile should be set with the @ActiveProfile annotation. As it's a test case I won't be able to use the web.xml. If possible I'd like to avoid runtime options as well. The test should run as is (if possible).

How can I properly activate the profile? Is it possible to set the profile with a context.xml? Could I declare the variable in a test-context.xml that is actually calling the normal context?

Answer 1

Can I recommend doing it this way, define your test like this:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) @TestExecutionListeners({     TestPreperationExecutionListener.class     }) @Transactional @ActiveProfiles(profiles = "localtest") @ContextConfiguration public class TestContext {    @Test   public void testContext(){    }    @Configuration   @PropertySource("classpath:/myprops.properties")   @ImportResource({"classpath:context.xml" })   public static class MyContextConfiguration{    } } 

with the following content in myprops.properties file:

spring.profiles.active=localtest 

With this your second properties file should get resolved:

META-INF/spring/config_${spring.profiles.active}.properties 

Answer 2

Looking at Biju's answer I found a working solution.

I created an extra context-file test-context.xml:

<context:property-placeholder location="classpath:config/spring-test.properties"/> 

Containing the profile:

spring.profiles.active=localtest 

And loading the test with:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) @TestExecutionListeners({     TestPreperationExecutionListener.class     }) @Transactional @ActiveProfiles(profiles = "localtest") @ContextConfiguration(locations = {     "classpath:config/test-context.xml" }) public class TestContext {    @Test   public void testContext(){    } } 

This saves some work when creating multiple test-cases.