How to run JUnit SpringJUnit4ClassRunner with Para

Question

The following code is invalid due to duplicate @RunWith annotation:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = {ApplicationConfigTest.class})
public class ServiceTest {
}

But how can I use these two annotations in conjunction?

Answer 1

There are at least 2 options to do that:

1. Following http://www.blog.project13.pl/index.php/coding/1077/runwith-junit4-with-both-springjunit4classrunner-and-parameterized/

   Your test needs to look something like this:

    @RunWith(Parameterized.class)
    @ContextConfiguration(classes = {ApplicationConfigTest.class})
    public class ServiceTest {
   
        private TestContextManager testContextManager;
   
        @Before
        public void setUpContext() throws Exception {
            //this is where the magic happens, we actually do "by hand" what the spring runner would do for us,
           // read the JavaDoc for the class bellow to know exactly what it does, the method names are quite accurate though
          this.testContextManager = new TestContextManager(getClass());
          this.testContextManager.prepareTestInstance(this);
        }
        ...
    }
   

2. There is a github project https://github.com/mmichaelis/spring-aware-rule, which builds on previous blog, but adds support in a generalized way

   @SuppressWarnings("InstanceMethodNamingConvention")
   @ContextConfiguration(classes = {ServiceTest.class})
   public class SpringAwareTest {
   
       @ClassRule
       public static final SpringAware SPRING_AWARE = SpringAware.forClass(SpringAwareTest.class);
   
       @Rule
       public TestRule springAwareMethod = SPRING_AWARE.forInstance(this);
   
       @Rule
       public TestName testName = new TestName();
   
       ...
   }
   

So you can have a basic class implementing one of the approaches, and all tests inheriting from it.

Answer 2

You can use SpringClassRule and SpringMethodRule - supplied with Spring

import org.junit.ClassRule;
import org.junit.Rule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.Parameterized;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.rules.SpringClassRule;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.rules.SpringMethodRule;

@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
@ContextConfiguration(...)
public class MyTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SpringClassRule SPRING_CLASS_RULE = new SpringClassRule();

    @Rule
    public final SpringMethodRule springMethodRule = new SpringMethodRule();

    ...

Answer 3

There is another solution with JUnit 4.12 without the need of Spring 4.2+.

JUnit 4.12 introduces ParametersRunnerFactory which allow to combine parameterized test and Spring injection.

public class SpringParametersRunnerFactory implements ParametersRunnerFactory {
@Override
  public Runner createRunnerForTestWithParameters(TestWithParameters test) throws InitializationError {
    final BlockJUnit4ClassRunnerWithParameters runnerWithParameters = new BlockJUnit4ClassRunnerWithParameters(test);
    return new SpringJUnit4ClassRunner(test.getTestClass().getJavaClass()) {
      @Override
      protected Object createTest() throws Exception {
        final Object testInstance = runnerWithParameters.createTest();
        getTestContextManager().prepareTestInstance(testInstance);
        return testInstance;
      }
    };
  }
}

The factory can be added to test class to give full Spring support like test transaction, reinit dirty context and servlet test.

@UseParametersRunnerFactory(SpringParametersRunnerFactory.class)
@RunWith(Parameterized.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"/test-context.xml", "/mvc-context.xml"})
@WebAppConfiguration
@Transactional
@TransactionConfiguration
public class MyTransactionalTest {

  @Autowired
  private WebApplicationContext context;

  ...
}

If you need Spring context inside @Parameters static method to provide parameters to test instances, please see my answer here How can I use the Parameterized JUnit test runner with a field that's injected using Spring?.

Answer 4

Handle application context by yourself

What worked for me was having a @RunWith(Parameterized.class) test class that managed the application context "by hand".

To do that I created an application context with the same string collection that would be in the @ContextConfiguration. So instead of having

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:spring-config-file1.xml",
    "classpath:spring-config-file2.xml" })

I had

ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {
            "classpath:spring-config-file1.xml", "classpath:spring-config-file2.xml"  });

And for each @Autowired I needed I fetched it by hand from the created context:

SomeClass someBean = ctx.getBean("someClassAutowiredBean", SomeClass.class);

Do not forget to close the context at the end:

((ClassPathXmlApplicationContext) ctx).close();