Background
I'm trying to implement integration test for controller in Spring. I DON'T want to use WebApplicationInitializer (Java config for Spring) to run my web app. I want to use xml based configurations. However, @ContextConfiguration could not load web.xml, so I created application-context.xml. The problem is web.xml and application-context.xml are serving the same purpose,
Question
Can I remove web.xml in favor of application-context.xml? If I remove web.xml, the test would pass, but the web app won't run in Tomcat.
Codes
This is my test class:
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"file:path/to/application-context.xml"})
@WebAppConfiguration
public class HelloControllerIntegrationTest {
@Autowired
private WebApplicationContext context;
private WebClient webClient;
@Before
public void setup() throws Exception {
MockMvc mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(context).build();
webClient = new WebClient();
webClient.setWebConnection(new MockMvcWebConnection(mockMvc));
}
@Test
public void testPrintWelcome() throws Exception {
// I'm trying to print out the page for now
UnexpectedPage welcomePage = webClient.getPage("http://localhost/");
InputStream is = welcomePage.getInputStream();
java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(is).useDelimiter("\\A");
String a = s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";
System.out.println(a);
}
}
This is my application-context.xml
<?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:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
<context:component-scan base-package="com.company.controller"/>
<bean id="viewResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/pages/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
<property name="viewClass" value="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.JstlView"/>
</bean>
</beans>
