[arquillian-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (ARQ-1303) Add Spring StaticApplicationContext

[omid pourhadi (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1303?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12754888#comment-12754888 ] 

omid pourhadi commented on ARQ-1303:
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You don't need to lookup the bean, we can provide a feature to autowire beans in a test class by using reflection. please take a look at AbstractSpringInjectionEnricher.java registerBean method. in my point of view, it might be better to keep away the developer from complexity of creating spring context and let Arquillian take care of it so having a prepared context and controlling it by annotation is more convenient than creating it.

second approach sounds cool but you only will be able to use it in Spring 3.x and it does not work with static application context.

another problem that thanks to Arquillian it is solved now is to use your test context in server. it is really cumbersome specially if you are using Grizzly (jersey) but it is not our concern in this case.

WDYT ?
                
> Add Spring StaticApplicationContext
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ARQ-1303
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1303
>             Project: Arquillian
>          Issue Type: Enhancement
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: Extension - Spring
>            Reporter: omid pourhadi
>            Assignee: Marius Bogoevici
>            Priority: Minor
>   Original Estimate: 1 week, 1 day
>  Remaining Estimate: 1 week, 1 day
>
> It is a common way that developers programmatically register beans into context specially in testing rather than reading bean definitions from external configuration sources, in this case, you need to use StaticApplicationContext.
> As far as my experience concerned, there are some circumstances that you need to have populated context when you are testing
> 1. for registering mock objects into context 
> let's assume we inject a DAO into a service and we want to mock DAO then test our service 
> {code:title=Bar.java|borderStyle=solid}
> public class MockTest(){
>   @Mock
>   Dao dao;
>   public void testMethod(){
>    ctx.getBeanFactory().registerSingleton(dao.getClass().getName(), dao);
>   }
> }
> {code} 
> 2. for specifying classes not packages
> sometimes you need to create a spring context by only some specific classes from different packages not the whole packages.
> It might be good idea to have an annotation ClassToScan({}) to define whcih classes, you want to scan 

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