Using Spring @ActiveProfile in integration tests

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I am using @Profile Spring annotations to choose between embedded, standalone and container managed data sources. In order to choose 'embedded' my integration tests are annotated to activate the appropriate profile:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(loader=AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class, classes={TestConfigWrapper.class})
@ActiveProfiles({"EMBEDDED_DB"})
public class SomeIntegrationTest {

The problem is that I would like to move '@ActiveProfiles' into TestConfigWrapper, but doing this doesn't get picked up and the application context won't load any DataSources.

This means I have to annotate every integration test with an @ActiveProfile which effectively means it becomes integration test boiler-plate and could easily hamper future refactoring.

Is there a way I can do this using java config?

@ ContextConfiguration and @ActiveProfiles could be inherited if I'm not mistaken, thus although not flexible but you can place these on an abstract class and make every integration test extend it. — Yugang Zhou
– Yugang Zhou, Commented Sep 6, 2013 at 1:28
Perfect - here's what I ended up using: @WebAppConfiguration @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) @ContextConfiguration(classes={WebAppInitializer.class}) @ActiveProfiles({Profiles.EMBEDDED_DB}) public abstract class ProfiledIntegrationTest { } — user1016765
– user1016765, Commented Sep 6, 2013 at 8:19

user1016765 · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-06 08:21:22Z

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Per comment from Hippooom use an abstract class to configure tests:

@WebAppConfiguration
@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration(classes={WebAppInitializer.class})
@ActiveProfiles({Profiles.EMBEDDED_DB})
public abstract class ProfiledIntegrationTest {

}

answered Sep 6, 2013 at 8:21

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eis Over a year ago

another alternative would've been having this as an annotation. Then you would have just had to use that one annotation on your test classes. Both should have an equal impact.

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