A few days ago, I posted this question asking whether there is a newer approach to Spring AOP and mockito.
While I understand how to use AOP, I am still missing on its returned value. The whole endeavour has shown me that it's not really popular - at least there aren't that many recent posts.
If I comment out the annotations @Aspect and @Configuration in my LoggingAspect class, effectively rendering it non-aop, all my tests are green. If I switch it back on, I start getting a load of NullPointerExceptions and loads of other errors on my mocked test classes.
I wonder if it is worth the hassle.
EDIT adding more detail from my specific implementation.
Controller:
@RestController
public class EndpointController {
private EndpointService endpointService;
@Autowired
public EndpointController(EndpointService endpointService) {
this.endpointService = endpointService;
}
@PostMapping(path = "/endpoint", consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
private @ResponseBody EndpointResponse doSomething(//... //, @RequestBody SomeObject someObject) throws Exception {
return endpointService.doSomething(someObject);
}
}
In my test class, I have:
@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
public class EndpointControllerTest {
@Autowired
private MockMvc mockMvc;
@Test
public void shouldBeSuccessfulAccessingTheEndpoint() throws Exception {
SomeObject someObject = new SomeObject(// values //);
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
String payload = mapper.writeValueAsString(someObject);
mockMvc.perform(post("/endpoint").contentType(MediaType.APPLICTION_JSON).content(payload)).andExpect(status().isOK));
}
}
It fails and throws a NullPointerException. When debugging, the endpointService is always null.
