Mock object behaviour

[anjibman]

Hi All,

I am creating mock object for my service to test my Spring MVC controller. This service used some proxies for getting the results. Now my question is do I have to mock these proxies too in test class? I am getting error like

org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No qualifying bean of type [com.myproject.MyProxy] found for dependency: expected at least 1 bean which qualifies as autowire candidate for this dependency

My test class looks like

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
@WebAppConfiguration
public class MyControllerTest {
	
	private MockMvc mockMvc;

	@Mock
	private MyService myService;

       ..........................................

}

[KevinWorkman]

What happened when you tried?

[Tolls]

Just to be clear, where are these proxies?
Are they part of the service you are mocking?

Then I would be surprised if you were expected mock out things that aren't actually going to be called.

[anjibman]

In MyService I have

@Resource
MyProxy myProxy;

public void doSomething() {
  String resp = myProxy.getResponseStatus();
}

[Tolls]

So something else is wrong if Spring is looking to inject a proxy into a mock object.

Now, it's possible Spring is simply going to load everything anyway, which would include your "real" MyService, in which case there should be a MyProxy somewhere.
After all, you'll need one in real life.
But I would hope for testing it wouldn't require that.

[anjibman]

Do I have to add beans in test context defination file? Right now in MyControllerTest-context.xml I have

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.2.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd">
	
    <mvc:annotation-driven />
    
</beans>

[Tolls]

I'm going to have to say "what does the documentation say", as I would have to read it myself to check my memory.