access bean id by name from my unit testing.

[cyber]

i am writing a test for my spring app.

what i wanted to do is pre-fillup a set of javabeans, for example:

<bean id="name" class="com.Name">
    <set property="firstname">Sample</property>
    <set property="address">Beverly hiils</property>
</bean>

<bean id="grades" class="com.Grades">
    <set property="quarter">1rst Quarter</property>
    <set property="grade">80</property>    
</bean>

my problem is i need to use those bean from my test case.

is there a way to access them like this or any way like this:

public void testSample(){
    Name name = context.get("name");
    Grade grade = context.get("grade");
}

any help will be very much appreciated.

thanks a lot in advance.

[noelbranz]

I think this would work,

as long as the you are creating an ApplicationContext based on the xml above.

and then get the beans from ApplicationContext.getBean(bean_id)

[jbetancourt]

public void testSample(){
    Name name = context.get("name");
    Grade grade = context.get("grade");
}

Another approach (if you must use the context for testing) is to use the Spring Mock module which allows you to wire JUnit tests without using the 'get'.

J. Betancourt

[cyber]

thx... will do both of your suggestion.