Unit test DAO using the same applicationContext.xml

[wolverine]

Hi

I created applicationContext.xml and hibernate.cfg.xml in MyProject/WebContent/WEB-INF

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
  <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
  <property name="configLocation" value="WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml" />
  ......
</bean>
<bean id="userDao" class="com.myproject.dao.impl.UserDaoImpl">
  <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

This configuration works, and my web application is able to retrieve database records from userDao.

Now, I created an unit test case for UserDao,

public class UserDaoTest {
    private ApplicationContext ctx;
    @Before
    public void setup() {
        ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");
    }
    ......
}

When run, it throws FileNotFoundException,

Error creating bean with name 'sessionFactory' defined in class path resource [applicationContext.xml]: Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: class path resource [WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist

It seems that I cannot specify WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml, but changing this will cause my application not able to find the file during runtime.

Do you know how to resolve this problem?

[Jörg Heinicke]

Do you know how to resolve this problem?

I solved this by using a PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer. I have different properties for web server and test environment.

Joerg

[karldmoore]

Just on a side note, if you are unit testing it might be a good idea to have a look at the spring helper classes.
http://www.springframework.org/docs/...e/testing.html