@ContextConfiguration(locations=) for loading xml

[Yaozong]

I tried migration existing test into Spring TestContext Framework, so I changed my baseTest first. Previously it looked like:

public abstract class BaseDaoTestCase extends AbstractJpaTests {

protected String[] getConfigLocations() {
return new String[] {
"classpath:/applicationContext-resources.xml",
"classpath:/applicationContext-dao.xml",
"classpath*:/applicationContext.xml", // for modular projects
"classpath:**/applicationContext*.xml" // for web projects
};
}

...
}

Every test works fine in this case, then I changed to:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {
"classpath:/applicationContext-resources.xml",
"classpath:/applicationContext-dao.xml",
"classpath*:applicationContext.xml", // for modular projects
"classpath:**/applicationContext*.xml" // for web projects
}, inheritLocations = true)
@TransactionConfiguration(transactionManager = "transactionManager", defaultRollback = true)
@Transactional
public abstract class BaseDaoTestCase extends TestCase {
//remove getConfigLocations method
}

I didn't change the classpath pattern, the new BaseDaoTestCase works fine for tests in the same project. For other projects, which uses BaseDaoTestCase project jar, the resource/applicationContext.xml can't be loaded, but it worked fine for the first BaseDaoTestCase.

Anyone has any clue?

[tannoy]

can you try "classpath*:/applicationContext.xml" in stead of "classpath*:applicationContext.xml"

[Yaozong]

Hi tannoy, thanks for your remind. However I've tried that even more, which just simply didn't work. Now I code the baseDaoTest with following path:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = {
"classpath:/applicationContext.xml",
"classpath:/applicationContext-dao.xml",
"classpath:/applicationContext-service.xml",
"classpath:/applicationContext-resources.xml",
"classpath*:/applicationContext.xml",
"classpath:/**/applicationContext*.xml"
}, inheritLocations = true)

because the subclass just copy the location instead of beans defined in super-class project, so I added an empty applicationContext.xml in the super-class project (where baseDaoTest rest) as a placeholder. Then it works for sub-class project, where beans are defined in applicationContext.xml.

The problem is kind of solved, but I still doubt wildcard (*) is working or not. Because I use "classpath:/applicationContext*.xml" to replace the first 4 lines above, it doesn't work at all.

[Yaozong]

I found relevant issue on offical Jira, actually classpath*: expression in @ContextConfiguration is a bug of Spring 2.5. It's fixed in 2.5.1

relevant Jira issue