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Reputation: 1593

Cache context in Spring test even if it failed to load

As mentioned in http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/testing.html#testcontext-ctx-management-caching, Spring will always tries to cache test contexts according to some generated key.

But, is there a way to cache a test context that failed to load? In other words -- if a test context failed to load, I do not want further tests to re-attempt loading it. In fact, they should just fail immediately with the same error that caused the initial context loading attempt to fail.

So, is there a way to do this in Spring? E.g., if I try to load a context whose "generated key" is the same as a previous one that failed to load, just fail immediately with the same error that the initial context loading attempt failed with/.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 830

Answers (2)

Sean
Sean

Reputation: 21

One solution to this would be to create you're own ContextLoader and override the loadContext method. For example, for a test using WebAppConfiguration, you could override WebDelegatingSmartContextLoader with something along the lines of

public class FastFailContextLoader extends WebDelegatingSmartContextLoader {
    private static boolean initialized = false;

    @Override
    public ApplicationContext loadContext(MergedContextConfiguration mergedConfig) throws Exception {
        if (initialized) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "The ApplicationContext has already attempted to initialize. Aborting subsequent initialization. Check "
                            + "earlier logs for original error");
        }
        setInitialized();
        return super.loadContext(mergedConfig);
    }

    private static void setInitialized() {
        initialized = true;
    }
}

Then you just need to annotate your test with

@ContextConfiguration(loader = FastFailContextLoader.class)

Upvotes: 0

Sam Brannen
Sam Brannen

Reputation: 31177

No, as of Spring Framework 4.0.5 there is no mechanism for caching a failed ApplicationContext.

If this is a feature you would like to see introduced in the Spring TestContext Framework, please create a JIRA issue for the "Spring Framework" project and "Test" component.

Regards,

Sam (author of the Spring TestContext Framework)

Upvotes: 1

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