WebApplicationInitializer is not launched on jetty+selenium - spring

Question

i am trying to run selenium test on jetty using gradle and my gradle configuration is as follows:
gradle.build:
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'findbugs'
//apply from:'http://github.com/breskeby/gradleplugins/raw/master/emmaPlugin/emma.gradle'
apply from: 'emma.gradle'
apply plugin: 'jetty'
sourceCompatibility = 1.7
version = ''
sourceSets {
selenium
}
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'org.gradle.api.plugins:gradle-cargo-plugin:0.6'
}
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
mavenRepo url: 'http://repository.primefaces.org'
mavenRepo url: 'http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public'
mavenRepo url: 'http://repository.jboss.org/maven2'
mavenRepo url: 'http://maven.springframework.org/release'
mavenRepo url: 'http://repo1.maven.org/maven2'
mavenRepo url: 'http://git.solutionstream.com/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty'
}
dependencies {
//JSF
compile group: 'com.sun.faces', name: 'jsf-api', version: '2.1.22'
compile group: 'com.sun.faces', name: 'jsf-impl', version: '2.1.22'
compile 'org.ocpsoft.rewrite:rewrite-servlet:2.0.3.Final'
compile 'org.ocpsoft.rewrite:rewrite-config-prettyfaces:2.0.3.Final'
compile 'javax.el:el-api:2.2'
runtime 'org.glassfish.web:el-impl:2.2'
//Servlet
compile group: 'javax.servlet', name: 'jstl', version: '1.2'
providedCompile group: 'org.jboss.spec', name: 'jboss-javaee-6.0', version: '1.0.0.Final'
compile 'taglibs:standard:1.1.2'
compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-web', version: '3.2.2.RELEASE'
//Omnifaces
compile 'org.omnifaces:omnifaces:1.5'
//Prime Faces
compile group: 'org.primefaces', name: 'primefaces', version: '4.0-SNAPSHOT'
compile 'org.primefaces.themes:bootstrap:1.0.10'
// DB
compile group: 'org.springframework.data', name: 'spring-data-jpa', version: '1.3.1.RELEASE'
compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-aspects', version: '3.2.2.RELEASE'
compile group: 'mysql', name: 'mysql-connector-java', version: '5.1.9'
compile group: 'javax.inject', name: 'javax.inject', version: '1'
compile group: 'javax.enterprise', name: 'cdi-api', version: '1.0-SP4'
compile 'cglib:cglib-nodep:2.2.2'
//Hibernate / JPA
compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-core:4.1.0.Final'
compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:4.1.0.Final'
compile 'org.hibernate.javax.persistence:hibernate-jpa-2.0-api:1.0.1.Final'
//JSR-303
compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:4.3.1.Final'
// Spring Security
compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:3.1.4.RELEASE'
compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:3.1.4.RELEASE'
compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:3.1.4.RELEASE'
//Utility
compile 'com.google.guava:guava:14.0.1'
compile 'commons-lang:commons-lang:2.6'
compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-email:1.3.1'
compile 'com.typesafe:config:1.0.0'
compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.2'
compile 'org.apache.geronimo.javamail:geronimo-javamail_1.4_mail:1.8.3'
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.2'
compile 'org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:1.7.2'
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:1.7.2'
//Mustache Templates
compile 'com.github.jknack:handlebars:1.0.0'
//Projects
//compile project(":ExtraValidators")
////TESTING DEPENDENCIES
testCompile 'com.googlecode.jmockit:jmockit:1.2'
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11'
testCompile 'com.h2database:h2:1.3.172'
//Spring Testing
testCompile 'org.springframework:spring-test:3.2.3.RELEASE'
/* Selenium */
seleniumCompile 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:2.33.0'
seleniumCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
}
task wrapper(type: Wrapper){
gradleVersion = '1.5'
}
eclipse {
classpath {
downloadSources=true
plusConfigurations += configurations.seleniumCompile
}
}
task jettyDaemon(type: org.gradle.api.plugins.jetty.JettyRun) {
daemon = true
}
task selenium(type: Test, dependsOn: jettyDaemon) {
testClassesDir = sourceSets.selenium.output.classesDir
classpath = sourceSets.selenium.runtimeClasspath
}
WebApplicationInitializer:
package com.myapp.web.config;
import javax.faces.application.ProjectStage;
import javax.servlet.FilterRegistration;
import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment;
import org.springframework.web.WebApplicationInitializer;
import org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader;
import org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener;
import org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy;
import com.myapp.data.config.SpringConfig;
import com.myapp.data.config.SpringJNDIDataConfig;
import com.myapp.data.config.SpringJNDIJPAConfig;
import com.myapp.data.config.SpringSecurityConfig;
import com.myapp.data.config.SpringWebConfig;
import com.myapp.utils.configuration.ConfigurationUtil;
public class WebappConfig implements WebApplicationInitializer {
protected final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(getClass());
#Override
public void onStartup(final ServletContext servletContext) throws ServletException {
if(logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
logger.debug("Starting web context configuration");
}
AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext rootContext = new AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext();
// rootContext.getEnvironment().setActiveProfiles("production");
rootContext.register(SpringConfig.class, SpringSecurityConfig.class, SpringWebConfig.class, SpringJNDIDataConfig.class, SpringJNDIJPAConfig.class);
servletContext.addListener(RequestContextListener.class);
new ContextLoader(rootContext).initWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
addFilters(servletContext, rootContext.getEnvironment());
servletContext.setInitParameter(ProjectStage.PROJECT_STAGE_PARAM_NAME, ConfigurationUtil.config().getString("jsf.stage"));
servletContext.setInitParameter("javax.faces.FACELETS_REFRESH_PERIOD", ConfigurationUtil.config().getString("jsf.refreshPeriod"));
}
private void addFilters(final ServletContext servletContext, final ConfigurableEnvironment configurableEnvironment) {
FilterRegistration.Dynamic securityFilter = servletContext.addFilter("springSecurityFilterChain", new DelegatingFilterProxy("springSecurityFilterChain"));
securityFilter.addMappingForUrlPatterns(null, false, "/*");
}
}
please advise how to make WebApplicationInitializer runs when running the selenium test on jetty.

Answer 1

WebApplicationInitializer requires a Servlet 3 container. However, Gradle's Jetty plugin is based on Jetty 6 which supports only Servlet 2.5.
You have a few options:
Configure your application with the web.xml file instead of WebApplicationInitializer
Use a newer Jetty version with Gradle. There are some workarounds in the comments of GRADLE-1956
Use an alternative container like Tomcat (gradle-tomcat-plugin)
Use an alternative plugin like gradle-cargo-plugin or arquillian-gradle-plugin. AFAIK there's a new gradle deployment plugin in the works that should be base on Arquillian.