ApplicationContext Error ....TestCase

[buntyindia]

I have the following code I am testing my controller with a Junit testcase if i run the testcase it runs with the following error

"ApplicationObjectSupport instance [BasicController@13f210f] does not run in an ApplicationContext "

But when I comment the following line

ApplicationContext context = this.getApplicationContext();

inside BasicController file my testcase runs successfully...

Please help what i am doing wrong I need that Context for checking the layout...

How can i test this what changees need to be done inside testCase file..


Please Help..

Regards

BuntyIndia






BasicController

public class BasicController extends UrlFilenameViewController
{
    protected ModelAndView handleRequestInternal(HttpServletRequest aRequest,
        HttpServletResponse aResponse)
    {

        ModelAndView mv = super.handleRequestInternal(aRequest, aResponse);
        mv.getModel().put("b", mv.getViewName() + ".jsp");
        
        ApplicationContext context = this.getApplicationContext();
      
        /**Do Some thing with the Context and return MV with layout**/
        
        return mv;

    }

testBasicController

public class testBasicController extends TestCase {
    
	public void testGettingIndexPage() throws Exception {

	BasicController controller = new BasicController();
        MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        MockHttpServletResponse response = new MockHttpServletResponse();

        request.setMethod("GET");
	request.setContextPath("/POC");
	request.setRequestURI("/index.htm");
        
        ModelAndView modelAndView = controller.handleRequest(request, response);

        assertEquals("Should get Index page", modelAndView.getModel().get("b") , "index.jsp");
    }
}

[Mike Bingham]

In your unit test, you instantiate an instance of BasicController directly:

  BasicController controller = new BasicController();

Because the Spring container is not being used to create this object, the application context will not be available.

If you need access to the application context, you could extend AbstractDependencyInjectionSpringContextTests and use the Spring container to inject an instance of BasicController into your test (making this more of an "integration test" than a "unit test"), or mock the ApplicationContext for the purposes of your unit test and call controller.setApplicationContext with the mock implementation.

[buntyindia]

Thanks for the help Mike.

I created a Application context entry as follows in my testCase

private ApplicationContext ctx;
ctx = new FileSystemXmlApplicationContext("/web/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml");

And also slightly changed the Bean Instantiation line

BasicController controller = (BasicController)ctx.getBean("basicController ");

This has solved my problem.


Bunty...