Spring Boot tests fail for missing javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest - spring-boot

Question

I have a springboot 1.5.9 using Spock for my integration tests. These tests all worked before with SpringBoot 1.3.5 but after upgrading Spring and Spock, I get the following when I run
gradle clean build test
Error on each integration test:
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type 'javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest' available: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate. Dependency annotations: {#org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired(required=true)}
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.raiseNoMatchingBeanFound(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1493)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1104)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1066)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:585)
My dependencies:
buildscript {
ext {
springBootVersion = '1.5.9.RELEASE'
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
}
}
dependencies {
querydslapt group: 'com.mysema.querydsl', name: 'querydsl-jpa', version: '2.8.0', classifier: 'apt-one-jar', transitive: false
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:$springBootVersion")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-jpa:$springBootVersion")
compile("org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:4.0.0.M1")
compile("org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:4.0.0.M1")
compile('org.thymeleaf.extras:thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity4:2.1.2.RELEASE')
compile('com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-xml:2.5.0')
compile("org.hibernate:hibernate-core:4.3.4.Final")
compile("org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:4.3.4.Final")
compile("org.hibernate:hibernate-validator")
compile("org.apache.velocity:velocity:1.7")
compile('javax.mail:mail:1.4.1')
compile("org.springframework:spring-context-support")
compile("mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.6")
compile("com.h2database:h2:1.3.172")
compile("joda-time:joda-time:2.3")
compile("org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.7.1")
compile('org.jadira.usertype:usertype.jodatime:2.0.1')
compile("org.liquibase:liquibase-core")
compile group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.4'
testCompile(group: 'org.spockframework', name: 'spock-core', version: '1.1-groovy-2.4') {
exclude group: 'org.codehaus.groovy', module: 'groovy-all'
}
testCompile(group: 'org.spockframework', name: 'spock-spring', version: '1.1-groovy-2.4') {
exclude group: 'org.spockframework', module: 'spock-core'
exclude group: 'org.spockframework', module: 'spring-beans'
exclude group: 'org.spockframework', module: 'spring-test'
exclude group: 'org.codehaus.groovy', module: 'groovy-all'
}
testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test:$springBootVersion")
testCompile('org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.7+')
testCompile("junit:junit")
}
And all my spock tests use this as their base:
#ContextConfiguration(classes = MainClass)
#WebAppConfiguration()
#SpringBootTest(webEnvironment=SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.NONE)
public class BaseSpecification extends Specification {
}
And here is the main class:
#ComponentScan
#EnableAutoConfiguration
#EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(securedEnabled = true)
public class MainClass {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApplicationContext mc = SpringApplication.run( MainClass.class, args );
}
}

Answer 1

For Spring based test, we need the SpringJUnit4ClassRunner so application context is created.
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = MainClass.class)
#WebAppConfiguration
#SpringBootTest(webEnvironment=SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.NONE)
public class BaseSpecification extends Specification {
}
and also add
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat")