Using the Test interface and not setting a simple value

[thelonesquirrely]

Hey - I am starting to use the test framework that Spring provides instead of writing my own (which would be hackey...)

But I think that there is something I am fundamentally missing/screwing up.

What is happening is that I am setting a string field through Spring and it seems to not be 'sticking'. Meaning I see it come in (debugger) and then be set to the right value - then when the test runs it is null...here is the code:

springTest/SimpleTestSuite.java

package springTest;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

@ContextConfiguration
public class SimpleTestSuite extends AbstractJUnit4SpringContextTests {
  private String testName = null;

  public void setTestName (String testName) {
    this.testName = testName;
  }

  @Test
  public void testSetName () throws Exception {
    assertNotNull (this.testName);
  }
}

springTest/SimpleTestSuite-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
           http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">
           
    <bean id="testSuite" class="springTest.SimpleTestSuite">
        <property name="testName" value="somecrap"/>
    </bean>
    
</beans>

I know it is simple but it doesn't make sense to me. Oh and the assert fails, btw...

[Marten Deinum]

Your test class must not be in the context, the spring context framework will wire the dependencies for you based on the beans in the context (I suggest a read of the testing chapter of the spring reference guide).

Simply, remove the setter, put @Autowired on the string, remove the testcase from the xml and only put the String in there. RUn again and it should work.

[thelonesquirrely]

Thanks that was very helpful! I had skimmed the chapter but missed that - oops! thank you so much!