How to fake InitialContext with default constructo

Question

All,

I'm trying to do some unit testing in some archaic java code (no interfaces, no abstraction, etc.)

This is a servlet that uses a ServletContext (which I'm assuming is set up by Tomcat) and it has database information is set up in the web.xml/context.xml file. Now, I've figured out how to make a Fake ServletContext, but the code has

 InitialContext _ic = new InitialContext();

all over the place (so it isn't feasible to replace it). I need to find a way to make a default InitialContext() able to do the _ic.lookup(val) without throwing an exception.

I'm assuming there is some way that the context.xml is getting loaded, but how that magic works, I'm drawing a blank. Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Try setting up the system variables before:

System.setProperty(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY,
        "org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContextFactory");
System.setProperty(Context.URL_PKG_PREFIXES,
        "org.apache.naming");
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();

If you are using JUnit, follow this doc: https://blogs.oracle.com/randystuph/entry/injecting_jndi_datasources_for_junit