Spring Aspect does not run in test environment

Question

In my web system, I have an AppConfig class like this

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.mypackage")
@EnableWebMvc
@EnableAspectJAutoProxy(proxyTargetClass = true)
public class AppConfig {

    @Bean
    public UrlBasedViewResolver setupViewResolver() {
        UrlBasedViewResolver resolver = new UrlBasedViewResolver();
        resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/pages/");
        resolver.setSuffix(".jsp");
        resolver.setViewClass(JstlView.class);
        return resolver;
    }
}

I also create Aspect class in order to check the authentication when user triggers a request

@Component
@Aspect
public class AuthenticationAspect {
    @Before(value = "@within(com.mypackage.logic.aspects.SessionLookUp) || @annotation(com.mypackage.logic.aspects.SessionLookUp)")
    public void before(JoinPoint joinPoint) throws FailAuthenticationException {
        LogFactory.getLog(AuthenticationAspect.class).info("monitor.before, class: " + joinPoint.getSignature().getDeclaringType().getSimpleName() + ", method: " + joinPoint.getSignature().getName());

        ServletRequestAttributes attr = (ServletRequestAttributes) RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes();
        HttpSession session = attr.getRequest().getSession(true);

        String username     = (String)  session.getAttribute("username");
        String role         = (String)  session.getAttribute("role");
        Boolean isLogined   = (Boolean) session.getAttribute("isLogined");

        if (
                session     == null || 
                username    == null || username.isEmpty()   ||
                role        == null || role.isEmpty()       ||
                isLogined   == null
        ) {
            throw new FailAuthenticationException("You need to login first");
        }

    }

    @After(value = "@within(com.mypackage.logic.aspects.SessionLookUp) || @annotation(com.mypackage.logic.aspects.SessionLookUp)")
    public void after(JoinPoint joinPoint) throws Throwable {
        LogFactory.getLog(AuthenticationAspect.class).info("monitor.after, class: " + joinPoint.getSignature().getDeclaringType().getSimpleName() + ", method: " + joinPoint.getSignature().getName());
    }
}

with the SessionLookup interface

@Component
@Target(value = { ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE })
@Retention(value = RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface SessionLookUp {}

This is my controller

@Controller
public class ApplicationController {

    @RequestMapping(value = "/", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    @ResponseBody
    @SessionLookUp
    public String sayHello() {
            return "Hello";
    }
}

Now, when I run on the browser, I will got the exception with the message "You need to log in first", but when using the integration test, the test will pass the Aspect without saying anything

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@Transactional
@ContextConfiguration(classes = {
    ApplicationController.class,
    AuthenticationAspect.class,
    DatabaseConfig.class 
})
@TestExecutionListeners({ 
    DependencyInjectionTestExecutionListener.class,
    DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener.class,
    TransactionalTestExecutionListener.class,
})
public class ApplicationControllerTest {

    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Autowired
    private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {                    
         mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(webApplicationContext).build();   
    }

    @Test
    public void testAuthentication() throws Exception {

        mockMvc.perform(
            get("/")
        )
        .andExpect(
            status().isOk()
        );
    }
}

How can I fix this one ?

Answer 1

Your @ContextConfiguration is declared as

@ContextConfiguration(classes = {
    ApplicationController.class,
    AuthenticationAspect.class,
    DatabaseConfig.class 
})

You seem to be missing your AppConfig class which declares the Aspect configuration.

Note that you should probably remove ApplicationController and AuthenticationAspect as well as those will be included (and managed) by AppConfig.