@Autowired with JUnit tests

Question

I´ve using JUnit but some tests have some issues, these tests have @Autowired annotation inside the Spring beans and when i reference them the beans that are @Autowired were always NULL.

Here is the example code:

     public class Test {

                 protected ApplicationContext ac;

                 @Before
                 public void setUp() {
                     ac = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("classpath:config/applicationContext.xml"
                     "classpath:config/test-datasources.xml");
                 }

                 @Test
                 public void testRun() throws Exception {
                        IManager manager =  (IManager)this.ac.getBean("manager");
                        manager.doSomething();
                 }
    }

    @Service
    public class Manager implements IManager {

            public boolean doSomething() throws Exception {
                 ParametersJCSCache parametersJCSCache = new ParametersJCSCache();
                 String paramValue = parametersJCSCache.getParameter("XPTO");
                 ...
            }
    }

    public class ParametersJCSCache extends SpringBeanAutowiringSupport {

          @Autowired
          private IParameterManager parameterManager;  //THIS IS NULL
    }

When invoking the Manager object the Spring generates the proxy but when accessing the @Autowired parameterManager the object is null, and with this issue i can´t test this method.

Any idea what is causing this? Why does the object not get injected? It works well in the context of a web application, but in the test context is always NULL.

Solution 1

I've finally found a solution to my problem. Find this post SpringBeanAutowiringSupport does not inject beans in jUnit tests and do something like this the JUnit tests works.

Solution 2

Try running your unit tests with a spring runner instead.

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"classpath:config/applicationContext.xml",
                 "classpath:config/test-datasources.xml"})
public class MyTest {

   @Autowired private IManager manager;

   @Test public void someTest() {
     assertNotNull(manager);
   }
}

It will load the config only once and when needed, and it will autowire your junit class