Refresh Spring ApplicationContext, without re-initializing context, possible?

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I'm doing some integration tests with JUnit. I have an xml file where I declare some template entities which I want to inject. On every test, I need a fresh application context, that is no test should depend/couple with other tests, so on setUp() I need to 're-initialize' these entities on their default starting values.

I can achieve it through reloading, but this way I can't use @Autowired annotations.

@Before
public void setUp(){        
    ApplicationContext ctx = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("classpath:entityTemplates-Context.xml");
    homeA = (Home)ctx.getBean("homeA");
}

Is there a way to do this and still use @Autowired for these entities?

SteveD · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-16 10:16:57Z

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Have you looked at Spring's support for integration testing?

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/spring-framework-reference/html/testing.html

My team use this for our integration tests where we need a Spring container. You get a fresh context per test, though this slows down the tests significantly.

edited Mar 16, 2012 at 10:16

answered Mar 16, 2012 at 9:52

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isah Over a year ago

Thanks, I use spring-test too and after some sniffing just found '@DirtiesContext(classMode = ClassMode.AFTER_EACH_TEST_METHOD)', it does the job, it reloads the whole context, slow but only for integration tests.

bodrin · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-03 14:55:15Z

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You can also do it manually like this:

  ...
  @Autowired
  HomeA homeA;

  @Before
  public void setUp() {
    // configures this test instance as a regular spring bean
    ctx.getAutowireCapableBeanFactory().autowireBean(this);

    // here homeA is available
  }
  ...

edited Dec 3, 2016 at 14:55

answered Jul 18, 2013 at 10:23

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