Spring boot How to access Appconfig properties in test case - unit-testing

Question

I am new to web services and spring boot. I have written a service for which I am now writing a test case.
My application gets Soap request, parses the body and saves contents into database.
My test case tests this service.
When I run the application and send a request from Postman, it runs alright. But when I call my service method from test case, I get nullpointer for JaxBcontext.
I have declared Jaxbcontext in my AppConfig.java (which is annotated with #Configuration and my jaxb is a bean with #Bean annotation) in my service, I have #autowire to use jaxbcontext.
I have pasted code snippets for clarity. Please advise me what I am doing wrongly here.
My test case
public class ReferralExchangeEndpointTest {
ReferralExchangeEndpoint referralExchangeEndpoint = new ReferralExchangeEndpoint();
JAXBContext jbcTest;
Marshaller marshaller;
Unmarshaller unmarshaller;
public ReferralExchangeEndpointTest() throws JAXBException {
}
#Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
jbcTest = JAXBContext.newInstance(
"our app schema"); // this is working fine, I have replaced schema with this text for posting it in stack.
ObjectFactory factory = new ObjectFactory();
marshaller = jbcTest.createMarshaller();
unmarshaller = jbcTest.createUnmarshaller();
}
#Test
public void send() throws Exception {
File payload = new File("payload.xml");
Object x = unmarshaller.unmarshal(payload);
JAXBElement jbe = (JAXBElement) x;
System.out.println(jbe.getName());
Object test = jbe.getValue();
SendRequestMessage sendRequestMessage = (SendRequestMessage) jbe.getValue();
// Method in test.
referralExchangeEndpoint.send(sendRequestMessage);
}
}
My service class
#Endpoint
public class ReferralExchangeEndpoint {
public static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ReferralExchangeEndpoint.class);
#Autowired
private JAXBContext jaxbContext;
#Autowired
.
.
.
private Form parseBody(String payLoadBody) {
try {
Unmarshaller um = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
return (Form) um.unmarshal(new StringReader(payLoadBody));
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed to extract the form from the payload body", e);
}
}
My appconfig file
#Configuration
public class AppConfig {
#Bean
public JAXBContext jaxbContext() throws JAXBException {
return
JAXBContext.newInstance("packagename");
}
#Bean public MessagingService messagingService() {
return new MessagingService();
}
}
Thanks.
Kavitha.

Answer 1

** Solved **
My test case now looks like this.
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#ContextConfiguration(classes = {AppConfig.class})`
public class ReferralExchangeEndpointTest {
#Autowired
ReferralExchangeEndpoint referralExchangeEndpoint;
#Autowired
private JAXBContext jaxbContext;
private Marshaller marshaller;
private Unmarshaller unmarshaller;
#Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
}
#Test
public void send() throws Exception {
File payload = new File("src/test/resources/payload.xml");
JAXBElement jbe = (JAXBElement) unmarshaller.unmarshal(payload);
SendRequestMessage sendRequestMessage = (SendRequestMessage) jbe.getValue();
JAXBElement<SendResponseMessage> response = referralExchangeEndpoint.send(sendRequestMessage);
//TODO add remaining assertions on response after confirming what should the service return for these attributes.
assertEquals("SiteId wrong in response: ", "siteId", response.getValue().getSiteId());
}
}`