I want to write an JUnit @Rule (version 4.10) to setup some objects (an Entity Manager) and make them available in the test, by "injecting" it into an variable.
Something like this:
public class MyTestClass() {
@Rule
MyEntityManagerInjectRule = new MyEntityManagerInjectRule():
//MyEntityManagerInjectRule "inject" the entity manager
EntityManger em;
@Test...
}
The Problem is that I do not know how to get the current instance of MyTestClass
in the MyEntityManagerInjectRule (extends TestRule), because it has only one method.
Statement apply(Statement base, Description description);
Within Description there is only the class MyTestClass but not the instance used for the test.
An alternative would be using org.junit.rules.MethodRule but this is deprecated.
Before and After are not sufficient for this task, because then I would need to copy the code to the tests, and they are more or less deprecated too. (See Block4JClassRunner.withBefores / withAfters).
So my question in how could I access the test class instance without using deprecated stuff.
How about:
public class MyTestClass() {
@Rule
public TestRule MyEntityManagerInjectRule =
new MyEntityManagerInjectRule(this); // pass instance to constructor
//MyEntityManagerInjectRule "inject" the entity manager
EntityManger em;
@Test...
}
Just add the test class instance to the constructor for the @Rule
. Just be careful of the order of assignment.
The proper way to achieve that is to make your rule implement org.junit.rules.MethodRule
(not TestRule
). The apply()
method of the MethodRule
interface has a target
argument, which holds a reference to the current instance of the test class (of course, it is a different instance each time a method is executed).
Example MethodRule
public class ExampleMethodRule implements MethodRule {
@Override
public Statement apply(final Statement base,
FrameworkMethod method, Object target) {
System.out.println("ExampleMethodRule#apply()" +
"\n\t base: " + base +
"\n\t method (current test method): " + method +
"\n\t target (current test class instance): "+target);
return new Statement() {
@Override
public void evaluate() throws Throwable {
System.out.println("->before evaluate()");
try {
base.evaluate();
} finally {
System.out.println("->after evaluate()");
}
}
};
}
}
Example test class using @Rule
public class ExampleTest {
@Rule
public ExampleMethodRule exampleMethodRule = new ExampleMethodRule();
@BeforeClass
public static void beforeClass() {
System.out.println("@BeforeClass");
}
@AfterClass
public static void afterClass() {
System.out.println("@AfterClass");
}
@Before
public void before() {
System.out.println("@Before");
}
@After
public void after() {
System.out.println("@After");
}
@Test
public void aa() {
System.out.println("method aa()");
}
@Test
public void bb() {
System.out.println("method bb()");
}
}
There is a different approach: the rule provides the EntityManager instead of injecting it.
public class MyTestClass() {
@Rule
public MyEntityManagerRule rule = new MyEntityManagerRule();
@Test
public void firstTest() {
doSomethingWith(rule.getEntityManager());
}
}