Getting application context while junit tests

[peatar]

Hi,

is a better way of getting the application context while junit testing than the following:

 protected static ApplicationContext ctx;

    public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
        if (Application.isLoaded()) {
            // normal apps life
            ctx = Application.instance().getApplicationContext();
        } else {
            // unit testing
            ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(
                    new String[]{"/de/timefinder/core/ctx/application-context.xml"});
        }
        return ctx;
    }

[jwray]

Not really RCP specific but yes, Spring has support for both JUnit and TestNG. Take a look at the testing section in the user manual (http://static.springframework.org/sp...text-framework).

Jonny

[peatar]

My problem was that the normal way of getting the application context
Application.instance().getApplicationContext()
will not work in unit tests ("the spring rich client application was not started")
so I had to introduce this ugly hack. How do you get the context in your application? (and then in unit tests ... )

[jwray]

Ahh, sorry I misunderstood the first message.

I've actually never had that problem with my unit tests. I tend to test my classes is isolation, outside of the spring configuration environment. I other applications I do have what I call integration tests that do bring in the spring environment but I've never done that with RCP applications.

Sorry I can't be more help, but I think your solution reflects one piece of the SRCP framework that people have been talking about changing - the overuse of singletons and static methods.

Jonny