Load ApplicationContext from Web Application

[codecraig]

I have a web application that runs in Tomcat. I configured my web.xml with:

<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

I also have some Java classes (not-servlets) that require beans managed by Spring. I would inject them but I am working with another technology that is loading them for me (coming from Flex).

Anyways here is the deal. I have a class, "SpringUtil" that provides static methods for regular Java objects (i.e. not servlets) to access beans. It loads the context as such:

private static ApplicationContext ctx;
static {
final String[] contexts = {"../applicationContext.xml"};
ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(contexts);
}


This works fine in production, however, when I run my unit tests they are failing because apparently it can't find the "applicationContext.xml" during testing. How should I fix this? Should my unit test setup the classpath (seems strange to do).

[Paul Newport]

See section 8.3.7. Spring TestContext Framework of the Spring manual

specifically:

8.3.7.2. Context management and caching

Kind of weird you can't use dependency injection....

[codecraig]

thanks for the help.

[codecraig]

So my package structure looks like:

src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml

My test class is in:

src/test/java/com/acme/TestFoo

I am trying to annotate my test class:

@ContextConfiguration(locations={"/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml"})
public class TestFoo extends AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests {
...
}

That doesn't work, how do I get the path to be accurate without hard coding something like "c:\dev\blah\..."?

[juanmanuel32]

try:

@ContextConfiguration(locations={"file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml"})
public class TestFoo extends AbstractTestNGSpringContextTests {
...
}