SpringBootTest : No qualifying bean of type 'org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc' available:

Question

Hey i have started learing spring-boot junit testing using spring boot Test framework at the time of creating the test case i am facing issues below .

    import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.containsString;
    import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestBuilders.get;
    import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultHandlers.print;
    import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.content;
    import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMatchers.status;

    import org.junit.Test;
    import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
    import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
    import org.springframework.boot.test.autoconfigure.web.servlet.AutoConfigureMockMvc;
    import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
    import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;
    import org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc;


    @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
    @SpringBootTest
    @AutoConfigureMockMvc
    public class ApplicationTest {

    @Autowired
    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Test
    public void shouldReturnDefaultMessage() throws Exception {
        this.mockMvc.perform(get("/")).andDo(print()).andExpect(status().isOk())
                .andExpect(content().string(containsString("Hello World")));
    }
}

In Above Code i am getting Error of

    Caused by: **org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: 
No qualifying bean of type 'org.springframework.test.web.servlet.MockMvc' available: 
expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate.
 Dependency annotations: {@org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}**
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoMatchingBeanFound(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1486) ~[spring-beans-4.3.8.RELEASE.jar:4.3.8.RELEASE]

I am aware of MockMvc name bean is not found by spring-boot but why its not able to find it and how i can do so that application will work fine.

Answer 1

Hope you have spring-boot-starter-web dependency. Not sure which version of Spring boot you use, but build mockMvc this way instead?

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest
public class ApplicationTest {

  @Autowired
  private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext;
  private MockMvc mockMvc;

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