context:component-scan - exclude-filter for a @component class isnt working

[ds-fh]

i would like to exclude a special class from JUnit testing.

my project has a class xEventHandler annotated with @Component...and i dont want spring to use this class while junit testing.

my ApplicationTestContext.xml looks like this:

<context:component-scan base-package="com.company">
      ...
      <context:exclude-filter expression="com\.company\.xyz\.xEventHandler\.java" type="regex"/>
      ...
</context:component-scan>

however...the class gets entered because of the @Component annotation...how can i fix is?

[Marten Deinum]

Please use [ code][/code ] tags when posting code, that way it remains readable.

If the component gets picked up either your expression is wrong or you have another component-scan which picks up the component.

Edit: Your filter is wrong... It should be the classname not the filename remove .java from your filter (as a start). Also why not use assignable instead of regex if it is a single class to exclude?

[ds-fh]

Edit: Your filter is wrong... It should be the classname not the filename remove .java from your filter

that was the misstake...thanks. shouldn´t be .java.


tried type="assignable" first, but ...

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to load ApplicationContext
	at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.getApplicationContext(TestContext.java:157)
	at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.injectDependencies(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:109)
	at org.springframework.test.context.support.DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.prepareTestInstance(DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.java:75)
.
.
....

[Marten Deinum]

Without the full stacktrace it is quite hard to pinpoint the problem with 'assignable'...