How do I override a scoped bean for tests? - spring

Question

I have this bean in my Spring Java config:
#Bean
#Scope( proxyMode=ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS, value=SpringScopes.DESKTOP )
public BirtSession birtSession() {
return new BirtSession();
}
For tests, I need a mock without a scope (there is no "Desktop" scope in the test). But when I create a configuration for my test which imports the above configuration and contains:
#Bean
public BirtSession birtSession() {
return new MockSession();
}
I get a "Desktop" scoped mocked bean :-(
How do I make Spring "forget" the #Scope annotation?
PS: It works when I don't use #Import and use copy&paste but I don't want to do that.

Answer 1

The problem seems to be in ConfigurationClassBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitionsForBeanMethod() that uses ScopedProxyCreator.createScopedProxy() static method to create the scoped bean definition:
// replace the original bean definition with the target one, if necessary
BeanDefinition beanDefToRegister = beanDef;
if (proxyMode != ScopedProxyMode.NO) {
BeanDefinitionHolder proxyDef = ScopedProxyCreator.createScopedProxy(
new BeanDefinitionHolder(beanDef, beanName), this.registry, proxyMode == ScopedProxyMode.TARGET_CLASS);
beanDefToRegister = proxyDef.getBeanDefinition();
}
As the BeanDefinitionHolder returns a RootBeanDefinition instead of ConfiguratioClassBeanDenition the scoped proxy bean definition (ie, the ScopedProxyFactoryBean) cannot be overriden by another Java Configuration class.
A workaround could be declaring the scoped beans to override in a xml configuration file and importing it with #ImportResource.

Answer 2

The problem isn't Spring keeping the annotation, the problem is that Spring first tries to parse the "productive" config and in order to do that, it checks whether the scope is available. Spring checks scopes eagerly. So it never gets to the second/overriding bean definition.
Create a dummy scope:
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectFactory;
public class MockSpringScope implements org.springframework.beans.factory.config.Scope {
private Map<String, Object> objects = new HashMap<String, Object>();
#Override
public Object get( String name, ObjectFactory<?> objectFactory ) {
Object result = objects.get( name );
if( null == result ) {
result = objectFactory.getObject();
objects.put( name, result );
}
return result;
}
#Override
public Object remove( String name ) {
return objects.remove( name );
}
#Override
public void registerDestructionCallback( String name, Runnable callback ) {
// NOP
}
#Override
public Object resolveContextualObject( String key ) {
// NOP
return null;
}
#Override
public String getConversationId() {
// NOP
return null;
}
}
and register that under as "Desktop" scope. That will Spring allow to successfully parse the production config.