How to test exceptions handling in #ControllerAdvice - spring

Question

I currently have two ControllerAdvice in my application, I'm supposed to merge them into one.
But I need to test them before and after the merge, test the exception and the object that the controller return me.
I'm trying to make a jUnit test with Mockito but it seems impossible to test the exceptions without any context, without a controller, etc ...
Does anyone know how can I proceed to achieve what I'm trying to do ?
I also try to throw manually an exception but obviously it wasn't catched by the ControllerAdvice.
So basically here is what i'm trying to do:
Manually throw an exception
This exception is handled by my ControllerAdvice
Check the returned object (code & message)
Here is a sample of code I have:
#Before
public void setup() {
...
mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(getController())
.setControllerAdvice(new GlobalControllerExceptionHandler())
.setCustomArgumentResolvers(resolver, resolver_0, resolver_1)
.setHandlerExceptionResolvers(exceptionResolver).build();
}
#Controller
#RequestMapping("/tests")
public static class RestProcessingExceptionThrowingController {
#RequestMapping(value = "/exception", method = GET)
public #ResponseBody String find() {
throw new EntityNotFoundException();
}
}
#Test
public void testHandleException() throws Exception {
mockMvc.perform(get("/tests/exception"))
.andExpect(new ResultMatcher() {
#Override
public void match(MvcResult result) throws Exception {
result.getResponse().getContentAsString().contains("global_error_test");
}
})
.andExpect(status().isNotFound());
}
I have the good status code at the end but it doesn't use my ControllerAdvice (I try with the debugger)

Answer 1

You can just call handler method directly
#ControllerAdvice
MyAdvice{
#ExceptionHandeler(listOfExxcetpions)
public ResponseEntity someOfMyExceptionsHandler(Exception e){
.....
}
}
and in test
MuTest{
private MyAdvice advice=new MyAdvice();
#Test
public void oneOfTests(){
Exception e=new SomeSortOfExceptionToTest();
resp=advice.someOfMyExceptionsHandler(e)
assertThat(resp).....dostuff;
}
}
If you want to test how spring integrates with your handlers - if your annotations are correct, ordering serialization etc - well that will be an integration test and you have to boot up test context - then you can throw exceptions directly from controller methods.