Mocked Objects in Context during tests execution

[cld_spring]

Hi,

I'm working on an application which has both component and integration tests. The differences between them is: a component test test more than one class (i.e., its inner objects aren't all mocked out - but some of them might be [such as JMS publishers]) and an Integration test is a test that nothing at all is mocked out. In another words, Spring gives you the object and you test it as it is.

So far, so good.

The problem is: in order to be able to replace one dependency or another from the Spring context, I used Springockito (https://bitbucket.org/kubek2k/springockito/wiki/Home) which offers you a way to mock out some beans from the Spring context.

So - in the component tests - I have this:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@DirtiesContext(classMode = AFTER_CLASS)
@ContextConfiguration(loader = SpringockitoContextLoader.class, locations = "classpath:spring-classify-test.xml")
public class....

    @Autowired
    @ReplaceWithMock
    private SomeServiceInterface someServiceInterface;
    @Autowired
    private Bean bean;

Bean has SomeServiceInterface as a depedency.

public class Bean { 
     private SomeServiceInterface...

In the case above, SomeServiceInterface concrete implementation will be replaced by a mock. Of course, that example is an oversimplification of the problem - I replace beans with mocks that are dependecies further down in the object graph.

It's worthy noticing that I load the context from this file: spring-classify-test.xml Also it's wothy noticing that I mark the context as dirty after the execution of the class - so, AFAIK, the next test class must reload the context.

Ok, now the integration test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(loader = SpringockitoContextLoader.class, locations = { "classpath:/spring-service-integration-test.xml" })
public ...

    @Autowired
    private Bean bean;

I load the context from spring-service-integration-test.xml - but SomeServiceInterface inside of Bean is still mocked! The context used in the integration test was changed as well!

If I mark the Integration test with @DirtiesContext(classMode = ClassMode.AFTER_EACH_TEST_METHOD), the first test in the class will fail because SomeServiceInterface is mocked - but the next test will pass because the context has been refreshed already.

Funny thing is:

If I ask Spring to inject SomeServiceInterface in the Integration Test, it will inject a SomeServiceInterface concrete implementation - not a mock!

I have tried many things to sort out that issue:
1) Programatically override the beans in the context after the component tests are done using the registerBeanDefinition method from the context
2) Create a TestExecution listener so I could try to manuallty refresh the context before the execution of an IntegrationTest - did not fix.
3) Use the same loader for the different contexts....
4) Go on and on.

Does anyone have any idea?

Cheers.