Spring Boot Test - Mocking A Handler Bean That Is Placed Deep In The Chain Of Responsibility - spring

This should happen quite often:
RestController -> SomeClass -> SomeOtherClass -> YetAnotherClass and so on...
In my specific case there is a chain of responsibility which is injected to a rest controller. Each class is injected to it's previous class in the above chain.
I have implemented this with spring boot and I'm trying to test the REST resource. I want to Mock the "YetAnotherClass" so that when I send a request with MockMvc I can verify that something has happened in the mock object.
The problem is if I use #MockBean to mock YetAnotherClass then I have to inject it to SomeOtherClass. I have tried to inject it with #TestConfiguration but it seems that the Mock object injection doesn't work this way when the request is sent through MockMvc and the mock object is nested deep inside a chain such as above. (The original bean is injected not the mock one)
I know that JMockit mocks every instance of a class so it would solve my problem. But Spring boot defaults to Mockito and I prefer to avoid inconsistencies.
How can I implement such a test scenario?

I've run into a lot of annoyance using Mockito's annotation config setup when setting up Spring JUnit text fixtures.
I've found the way I like mocking beans with external integrations like this this by essentially having a separate MockObjectsConfig class with the mock objects I want using the standard Spring Context Configuration, and then import it alongside my real test config:
#Configuration
public class MockObjectsConfig {
#Bean
public YetAnotherClass yetAnotherClass() {
Mockito.mock(YetAnotherClass.class); // and add any thenReturns, answers, etc. here
}
... More mock beans...
}
Then include it in your test like so:
#RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration(classes = { MyRealConfigClass.class, MockObjectsConfig.class)
public class MyJunitTest {
#Autowired
private RestController restController;
}
You can also annotate your mock bean with #Profile and test with #ActiveProfiles if you need to prevent a conflict there.
This way your mock YetAnotherClass will get injected into your context like all your other beans -- no relying on, mixing, and fiddling around with Mockito and other library annotations.

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MockBean and MyBatis Mapper not working together (as they did before Spring Boot 2.2.7)

I am using MyBatis Spring Boot Starter version 2.1.3. Ever since moving to Spring Boot 2.2.7 (I've also tried 2.2.8 and 2.3.1 with the same results), I've had a problem using the MockBean annotation to mock a MyBatis interface (e.g. DAO). Let's say I have an interface like this one:
#Mapper
#Repository
public interface OrderDAO {
int insertOrder(#Param("order") Order order);
}
I'd like to execute an integration test and mock this mapper within my OrderService that contains a field of type OrderDAO.
My integration test is annotated with #SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT) and contains this field:
#MockBean
private OrderDAO orderDAO;
When I run a test such as this and look at what the references to the OrderDAO objects are, in my integration test I see this:
com.example.dao.OrderDAO$MockitoMock$1819884459
But inside my OrderService class the field is this:
com.sun.proxy.$Proxy179 (org.apache.ibatis.binding.MapperProxy#37d9310e)
So, calls to Mockito.verify obviously don't work because my mock has not been injected into my OrderService class. Now, very oddly, I found that adding this code makes everything work:
#TestConfiguration
static class MockConfig {
#Bean
public OrderDAO orderDAO() {
return Mockito.mock(OrderDAO.class);
}
}
Adding this nested class along with adding the ContextConfiguration annotation on the integration test class, and now the object that gets injected into the OrderService class is the MockitoMock -- the same object that is referenced by the MockBean annotated field in the test class. I didn't have to do this with Spring Boot 1.2.6 and earlier and I couldn't find any reference to a change that would have caused this (although perhaps I didn't search long enough).
So, I am wondering if I am doing something incorrectly, or, am I missing something I should be doing? It seems like this should just work like it did before, which the need for this extra nested TestConfiguration class. Appreciate any insights anyone can provide. Thanks.
As mentioned by ave in the comments, I had to add the name to the mock bean annotation to get it to work
#MockBean(name = "orderDAO")
private OrderDAO orderDAO;

How to Mock Spring Boot Application Context In Unit Testing

I Have a Source class which has a dependency Of type Application Context. Using this we are achieving polymorphism. How to unit test this class. I'm using Spring boot application.
#Autowired
ApplicationContext applicationContext;
String beanName= "employeeImpl";
applicationContext.getBean(beanName, Employee.class);
For situations where you are trying to mock a hard-to-mock class, consider using a wrapper class (i.e. the Adapter/Wrapper pattern). For example, one might create new class, ApplicationContextAdapter that is auto wired into your class under test as a class that is easy to mock. This new class would internally autowire the actual ApplicationContextinstance and might have a getApplicationContext() method to get the wrapped instance.
That being said, I agree with #DarrenForsythe that you don’t shouldn’t autowire this class.

Spock with Spring Boot and Camel: Zero interactions with detached mock

I am having some issues with testing my camel context with spring boot.
I am using spring boot 1.5.6, spock 1.1-groovy-2.4, camel 2.19.2, and camel-spring-boot-starter 2.19.2.
I am using a spock mock, and I'm using the DetachedMockFactory in a #TestConfiguration class. All of my beans use constructor injection. I am injecting a mocked #Repository into one of the processor #Components, and I am also injecting it into my test class to define interactions.
I have my test annotated with #SpringBootTest with the classes list including all Processor implementations, and all RouteBuilder extensions. I also have an '#Import' with my TestConfiguration class. I am even using constructor injection for this repository bean in my test!
But it seems that the mock that is injected into the test class is not the one that is in use. Does anyone have an idea what could be wrong? I have tried #DirtiesContext to reload the context both before and after each test, but that did not help.
Problems with DetachedMocks not behaving correctly, e.g., appearing to be the same instance, are usually caused by some framework wrapping them in proxies. For example this can be caused by #Transactional annotation in Spring, which creates a proxy to facilitate jdbc-session management. See also issue #758
For spring you can use the methods of AopUtils (jdoc). The simple way is to use AopUtils.isAopProxy to check if it is proxied by spring an then unwrap it.
public static <T> T getTargetObject(Object proxy) throws Exception {
if (AopUtils.isAopProxy(proxy)) {
return (T) ((Advised) proxy).getTargetSource().getTarget();
} else {
return (T) proxy;
}
}
And in a Test
def "sample service test"() {
given:
def sampleRepositryMock = getTargetObject(sampleRepositry)
when:
sampleService.doSomething() // simply invoke sampleRepositry.doSomething() in it
then:
1 * sampleRepositryMock.doSomething()
0 * _
}
Edit: Since Spock 1.2 there is an extension to automatically unwrap injected beans #UnwrapAopProxy.
#Inject
#UnwrapAopProxy
SampleRepositry sampleRepositryMock
If someone comes up with the same problem.
Spock added additional #UnwrapAopProxy that will do the job for you instead of the util method mentioned above. You can also drop the DetachedMockFactory
#SpringSpy
#UnwrapAopProxy
Service service

Spring tries to autowire Mockito mocks

I have a spring managed application in which I like for my service layer to be mocked. So I created a Spring Application Java Config and returned a mock of the actual service.
For e.g,
#Bean
#Profile("resource")
public MyService mockService() {
return mock(MyService.class)
}
And then the MyService goes as
class MyService {
#Autowired
private MyDao dao;
}
When Spring creates bean of name "mockService", it also tries to Autowire MyDao on the mock ? This in my opinion defeats the purpose of mocking. Is this the expected behaviour, whats the workaround ?
So bottomline, its best practice to code to interfaces rather than concrete classes particularly if you are wanting to write focused tests on specific layers.
Well, I suppose you're trying to execute an integration test, but using some mocks, doing something like this:
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = {Application.class, YourMockConfigurationClass.class})
#WebIntegrationTest
public class MyIntegrationTest {
...
}
In this case, you can create a mock of your service, and tell spring that this service instance has priority:
#Bean
#Primary
public MyService mockService() {
return mock(MyService.class)
}
Doing this, whenever Spring has to inject an unqualified MyService instance, it always chooses your mock. But it doesn't prevent Spring to create the original service.
So inside Spring context there will be two instances of MyService, the mock instance and the original implementation. But using #Primary you're telling Spring that your mock has priority.
On the other hand, in order to prevent Spring to load any mock in your environments (dev, test, etc...), you should annotate your mock configuration class either with a testing #Profile or a custom annotation (like #MockBean) and then configure your component scan strategy to not load this class (#ComponentScan(excludeFilters=#Filter(MockBean.class)))

Invoking custom annotation using Spring AOP

I searched the web for a clear example on how to invoke my custom method annotation using Spring AOP but couldn't find a clear example.
I am building a framework to inject a user profile in the context when certain methods on any POJO is called.
The framework API should be invoked via a custom method annotation, say #RunAsAdmin. I can build the annotation part and parser, my question is what is the best way to invoke my parser when the annotated method is called.
We are using Spring 3.0 and would like to know what is the best practice to configure Spring framework to understand those methods annotated with specific annotation and invoke my annotation handler (parser).
Any example or guidance will be highly appreciated.
Intercepting a call on any annotated Spring bean method is straightforward, see the example below.
Intercepting a call on a POJO is not possible by definition - you have to return a proxy instead.
That is, you should implement a factory for these POJOs that will return proxies instead of real POJOs. You might use ProxyFactoryBean http://docs.spring.io/autorepo/docs/spring-framework/3.2.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/api/org/springframework/aop/framework/ProxyFactoryBean.html for this.
//intercepting a call to any method annotated with #com.yours.RunAsAdmin of any Spring-managed bean
#Component #Aspect class RunAsAdminAspect {
#Autowired
private YourRunAsAdminHandler handler;
#Before("#annotation(com.yours.RunAsAdmin)")
public void doRunAsAdmin() {
handler.grantAdminRightsToCurrentUser(); //your real stuff
}
}

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