Spring 2.5-rc1 test context framework error

[Narada]

Hi,

I'm using Spring 2.5-rc1 test context framework.

When I do this:

import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@TestExecutionListeners({})
public class TestContext {

    @Test
    public void testTrue() {
        assertTrue(true);
    }

}

or:

import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.TestExecutionListeners;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = { "classpath:src/test/resources/context.xml" })
public class TestContext {

    @Test
    public void testTrue() {
        assertTrue(true);
    }

}

I get:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationUtils.findAnnotationDeclaringClass(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/Class;
        at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.retrieveContextLocations(TestContext.java:159)
        at org.springframework.test.context.TestContext.<init>(TestContext.java:115)
        at org.springframework.test.context.TestContextManager.<init>(TestContextManager.java:106)
        at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.createTestContextManager(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:114)
        at org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.<init>(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.java:80)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
        at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
        at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.buildRunner(ClassRequest.java:33)
        at org.junit.internal.requests.ClassRequest.getRunner(ClassRequest.java:28)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.<init>(JUnit4TestReference.java:26)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestClassReference.<init>(JUnit4TestClassReference.java:24)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.createTest(JUnit4TestLoader.java:40)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestLoader.loadTests(JUnit4TestLoader.java:30)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:445)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:673)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:386)
        at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:196)

What I expect to happen is that spring loads the context file which looks as below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-2.0.xsd"
    default-lazy-init="true">

    <bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.RequiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor" lazy-init="false" />

    <import resource="classpath:com/foo/bar/wc/dl/context/*.xml" />

    <util:properties id="bar.wc.HibernateProperties" location="classpath:bar.wc.hibernate.properties" />
</beans>

What am I doing wrong? I am using Junit4. I noticed that when I comment out:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)

then it runs fine but in the log output I see no spring context loading and the test passes. Ideally the context should load and then fail part way because the datasource bean is missing but as I said it does not even try to load the context.

Any help much appreciated.

[Marten Deinum]

Try the JUnit shipped with Spring instead of the one shipped with Eclipse. Also make sure you don't have duplicate classes/jars on your classpath.

[Sam Brannen]

Hi Narada,

Originally Posted by Narada

I'm using Spring 2.5-rc1 test context framework.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationUtils.findAnnotationDeclaringClass(Ljava/lang/Class;Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/Class;

What am I doing wrong?

The Spring TestContext Framework requires Spring 2.5 (or rather 2.5 RC1 at the moment). Based on the fact that a NoSuchMethodError was thrown for AnnotationUtils.findAnnotationDeclaringClass(...), it appears that you do not have the latest Spring JARs on your classpath for your test (or as Marten pointed out, that you have duplicate JARs or classes on the classpath), as the AnnotationUtils.findAnnotationDeclaringClass() method was introduced in 2.1 M4.

So basically, just make sure you are using spring.jar and spring-test.jar from 2.5 RC1, and that should do the trick.

Cheers,

Sam

[Narada]

Hi. Thanks all. This issue is now resolved. I was using maven and had Spring 2.0.7 stable as compile time dependency and Spring-Test 2.5-rc1 as test time dependency so that I could use the test context framework. However I switched to the latter for both now by altering version in pom file. Now it works fine. Thanks. (Now to decide whether to use 2.5-rc1 in production ;)

[dyn]

Narada, you say you found a repository where Spring 2.5-rc1 is publicly avalaible? I'd love to know where to get it from with maven..

[Sam Brannen]

Originally Posted by dyn

Narada, you say you found a repository where Spring 2.5-rc1 is publicly avalaible? I'd love to know where to get it from with maven..

This topic was brought up for the 2.1 M4 release as well. See Ben Hale's response here:

http://forum.springframework.org/sho...79&postcount=3

Note: Ben mentions two different URLs. The one at s3browse.com is solely for browsing the repository within a web browser; whereas, the one at s3.amazonaws.com is the actual URL to use with Maven.

Regards,

Sam

[Marten Deinum]

This blog post explains where to get Spring Portfolio maven artifacts and how the releases are managed/published.