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Reputation: 2396

Load bean once throughout test suite

I have a bean that describes my session factory. I only want to load this bean once throughout my entire test suite. I wanted to know, is this possible? And I would like to localize to my context.xml if that is possible too. I can post any source you want, just ask.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 548

Answers (1)

Tomasz Nurkiewicz
Tomasz Nurkiewicz

Reputation: 340933

In Spring test framework, if all test case classes use the same locations attribute, the context is preserved between runs. In the example below context defined in context.xml will be loaded only once (before first test case) and will be closed when JVM exits:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:context.xml")
@Transactional
public class FooTest {
  //...
}

@ContextConfiguration(locations = "classpath:context.xml")
@Transactional
public class BarTest {
  //...
}

You cannot preserve only one bean, but you can load the whole context once. See my article Speeding up Spring integration tests.

Upvotes: 3

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