Spring Data Rest testing

Question

I'm developing the application by using Spring Data Rest. As you know, after creating simple repository interfaces, rest-endpoints are created by library.

Do I need to test these endpoints by integration tests? If yes, please provide any examples

Yes, I think you should definitely write tests. you can find examples [here](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-testing) — majid, May 06 '19 at 05:01

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 06 '19 at 05:09

here is the code snippet. read the full tutorial here

@Entity
@Table(name = "person")
public class Employee {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @Size(min = 3, max = 20)
    private String name;

    // standard getters and setters, constructors
}

@Repository
public interface EmployeeRepository extends JpaRepository<Employee, Long> {
    public Employee findByName(String name);
}


@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(
  SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.MOCK,
  classes = Application.class)
@AutoConfigureMockMvc
@TestPropertySource(
  locations = "classpath:application-integrationtest.properties")
public class EmployeeRestControllerIntegrationTest {

    @Autowired
    private MockMvc mvc;

    @Autowired
    private EmployeeRepository repository;

    @Test
public void givenEmployees_whenGetEmployees_thenStatus200()
  throws Exception {

    createTestEmployee("bob");

    mvc.perform(get("/api/employees")
      .contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON))
      .andExpect(status().isOk())
      .andExpect(content()
      .contentTypeCompatibleWith(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON))
      .andExpect(jsonPath("$[0].name", is("bob")));
}
}

Isn't there an automated way of generating the tests that verifies all endpoints like the fact that @RepositoryRestResource generates all endpoints? — Andy Dufresne, Jun 23 '21 at 13:50

Eamon Scullion · Answer 2 · 2019-05-07T15:37:08.420

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Aside from regular testing you can do with Spring (using MockMvc, RestAssured, RestTemplate etc), Traverson is a great API for specifically testing Spring HATEOAS. You can use it to test the validity of the links you are returning to your clients, see this example

edited May 07 '19 at 15:37

answered May 07 '19 at 15:02

Eamon Scullion

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 24 '23 at 21:43

With https://github.com/Cosium/hal-mock-mvc, you can test them as follow:

   @AutoConfigureHalMockMvc
   @SpringBootTest
   class MyTest {
     @Autowired
     private HalMockMvc halMockMvc;
   
     @Test
     void test() {
       halMockMvc
          .follow("current-user")
          .get()
          .andExpect(status().isOk())
          .andExpect(jsonPath("$.alias").value("jdoe"));
     }
   }

Spring Data Rest testing

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