Unit testing of Spring Boot Actuator endpoints not working when specifying a port

Question

recently I changed my spring boot properties to define a management port. In doing so, my unit tests started to fail :(

I wrote a unit test that tested the /metrics endpoint as follows:

@RunWith (SpringRunner.class)
@DirtiesContext
@SpringBootTest
public class MetricsTest {

    @Autowired
    private WebApplicationContext context;

    private MockMvc mvc;

    /**
     * Called before each test.
     */
    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        this.context.getBean(MetricsEndpoint.class).setEnabled(true);
        this.mvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.context).build();
    }

    /**
     * Test for home page.
     *
     * @throws Exception On failure.
     */
    @Test
    public void home()
            throws Exception {
        this.mvc.perform(MockMvcRequestBuilders.get("/metrics"))
                .andExpect(MockMvcResultMatchers.status().isOk());
    }
}        

Previously this was passing. After adding:

management.port=9001

The tests started failing with:

home Failed: java.lang.AssertionError: Status expected: <200> but was: <404>

I tried changing the @SpringBootTest annotation with:

@SpringBootTest (properties = {"management.port=<server.port>"})

Where is the number used for the server.port. This didn't seem to make any difference.

So then changed the management.port value in the property file to be the same as the server.port. Same result.

The only way to get the test to work is remove the management.port from the property file.

Any suggestions/thoughts ?

Thanks

Answer 1

For Spring boot test we need to specify the port it needs to connect to.

By default, it connects to server.port which in case of actuators is different.

This can be done by

@SpringBootTest(properties = "server.port=8090")

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in application.properties we specify the management port as below

...
management.server.port=8090
...