How do I call a context when using annotations?

[linker85]

Hi, good evening.

As everyone may have seen, when you open the helloworld proyect from the spring-integration-by-example;
in the example they don´t use annotations so when the call the spring context they put:

		AbstractApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
				"/META-INF/spring/integration/helloWorldDemo.xml", HelloWorldApp.class);
		MessageChannel inputChannel = context.getBean("inputChannel", MessageChannel.class);
		PollableChannel outputChannel = context.getBean("outputChannel", PollableChannel.class);
		inputChannel.send(new GenericMessage<String>("World"));
		logger.info("==> HelloWorldDemo: " + outputChannel.receive(0).getPayload());

But, what if I´m using annotations to load the context, like this:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:envio-test-config.xml" })
public class EnvioTests extends AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests {
    @Test
    public void myMethod() { }
}

and in "myMethod" I want to do something like:

		PollableChannel outputChannel = context.getBean("outputChannel", PollableChannel.class);
		inputChannel.send(new GenericMessage<String>("World"));
		logger.info("==> HelloWorldDemo: " + outputChannel.receive(0).getPayload());

what would be it´s equivalent when using annotations??

Thanks in advance.

[Gary Russell]

You can either

@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:envio-test-config.xml" })
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class EnvioTests extends AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests {

    @Autowired
    private MessageChannel inputChannel;

    @Autowired
    private PollableChannel outputChannel;

    @Test
    public void myMethod() { 
    ...
    }
}

or

@Autowired
private ApplicationContext context

and use context.getBean() as before.

There are lots of examples (of either option) in the framework test cases.