Specifying autowire mode for dependency injection in tests

[radhakrishnan.j]

Hi,

The default auto wiring mode for unit tests in the 'mock' module is autowire by type. I'd like to change this to autowire by name. How can I achieve this? I tried to use the setAutowireMode method, but oddly enough its not even visible in my unit test. Has anyone tried to do this before ?

Herez what my unit test looks like

public class TransactionalTest extends AbstractTransactionalSpringContextTests  {
 ....
 	public TransactionalTest() {
		super();
//Next line causes a compiler error!
	 setAutowireMode(AutowireCapableBeanFactory.AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME);
	} 
}

The method signature of the API that I'm trying to use is

public abstract class AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests ... {
 ...
	/**
	 * Set the autowire mode for test properties set by Dependency Injection.
	 * <p>The default is "AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE". Can be set to "AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME"
	 * or "AUTOWIRE_NO" instead.
	 * @see #AUTOWIRE_BY_TYPE
	 * @see #AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME
	 * @see #AUTOWIRE_NO
	 */
	public final void setAutowireMode(int autowireMode)      {
		this.autowireMode = autowireMode;
	}
...
}

And this should be accessible. I can't make sense of this. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Radhakrishnan

[Andrei Stefan]

This is weird... your code should work.

//Next line causes a compiler error!
setAutowireMode(AutowireCapableBeanFactory.AUTOWIR E_BY_NAME);

What is the compiler error ?

[julien.dubois]

You can have a look at my code here :
http://tudu.svn.sourceforge.net/view...02&view=markup

It's AUTOWIRE_NO, but not AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME, but this should not make a big difference and it should help you make your code work.

I'm also interested by the compiler error you get.