Wrong spring application context loaded on test

Question

I have my Spring app where the application context is loaded properly and working. But when I try to load it in my tests, the application context loaded does not contain any of the beans declared in config files.

@Test
public void testInsertMapitPoint() {
    ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[] {     "classpath:*/application-ds-context.xml","classpath:*/application-dao-context.xml" });
    System.out.println("Bean Names:");
    for (String beanName : context.getBeanDefinitionNames()) {
        System.out.println(beanName);
    }
}

The displayed test does not show any bean in the context. Any help?

Answer 1

With a pattern like

classpath:*/application-ds-context.xml
       // ^ this guy

Spring will load any file that matches that pattern. Any meaning it might not find/load any. In this example, it will look for any file called application-ds-context.xml that is in any 1st level package.

For example, it will find

/classpath-root
    /first
        application-ds-context.xml

but it won't find

/classpath-root
    application-ds-context.xml

or

/classpath-root
    /first
        /second
            application-ds-context.xml

If that's the behavior you are seeing, your classpath does not contain such a file. Review how you are building your test application.