unable to reference Spring services in JUnit - spring

Question

i am running a Karaf container with a number of beans implementing the com.mycompany.foo.IMyBean interface. i refer to them as "child beans". each such "child" bean is registered as a service. i also have a single "parent" bean that rounds up all those "child" services by using osgi:list. everything works just fine in runtime. however, when i run a very simple JUnit scenario, i get the following exception:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error
creating bean with name 'BeanRefsList': Invocation of init method
failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
Required 'bundleContext' property was not set.
this is the context.xml in my JUnit project:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:osgi="http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi http://www.springframework.org/schema/osgi/spring-osgi.xsd
">
<bean id="ChildBean"
class="com.mycompany.foo.ChildBean">
</bean>
<osgi:service id="ChildBeanService" ref="ChildBean" interface="com.mycompany.foo.IMyBean"/>
<osgi:list id="BeanRefsList" interface="com.mycompany.foo.IMyBean"/>
<bean id="ParentBean" class="com.mycompany.foo.ParentBean">
<property name="childBeans" ref="BeanRefsList"/>
</bean>
</beans>
the test class also contains the following annotation entries:
#org.junit.runner.RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration("context.xml")
please let me know what i am doing wrong. thank you for your time!

Answer 1

The error message explains it pretty clearly. The line that says
<osgi:list id="BeanRefsList" interface="com.mycompany.foo.IMyBean"/>
Needs too look more like
<bean id="ParentBean" class="com.mycompany.foo.ParentBean">
<property name="childBeans" ref="BeanRefsList"/>
</bean>
Where the property "bundleContext" gets set properly. I'm not familiar with OSGI, so I don't know what class/object needs to be set here. But, that's what's missing.
I'm not sure what OSGI is looking for that's making it tell you "bundleContext" property is missing, but it sounds like both osgi:list and osgi:service use some kind of bundleContext property.
Have you specified all of the same imported schemas in jUnit that you did for your runtime context?