Spring Testing
The Spring Framework offers a number of features that makes it easy to test while using Spring for Inversion of Control which works with JUnit 3.x, JUnit 4.x or TestNG.
We can reuse Spring for IoC and the Camel Mock and Test endpoints to create sophisticated integration tests that are easy to run and debug inside your IDE.
For example here is a simple unit test
import org.apache.camel.CamelContext; import org.apache.camel.component.mock.MockEndpoint; import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired; import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration; import org.springframework.test.context.junit38.AbstractJUnit38SpringContextTests; @ContextConfiguration public class MyCamelTest extends AbstractJUnit38SpringContextTests { @Autowired protected CamelContext camelContext; public void testMocksAreValid() throws Exception { MockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(camelContext); } }
This test will load a Spring XML configuration file called MyCamelTest-context.xml from the classpath and initialize it along with any Camel routes we define inside it, then inject the CamelContext instance into our test case.
Then the test method will then run which invokes the MockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(camelContext) method which asserts that all of the Mock and Test endpoints have their expectations met.
Adding more Mock expectations
If you wish to programmatically add any new assertions to your test you can easily do so with the following. Notice how we use @EndpointInject to inject a Camel endpoint into our code then the Mock API to add an expectation on a specific message.
@ContextConfiguration public class MyCamelTest extends AbstractJUnit38SpringContextTests { @Autowired protected CamelContext camelContext; @EndpointInject(uri = "mock:foo") protected MockEndpoint foo; public void testMocksAreValid() throws Exception { // lets add more expectations foo.message(0).header("bar").isEqualTo("ABC"); MockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(camelContext); } }
Further processing the received messages
Sometimes once a Mock endpoint has received some messages you want to then process them further to add further assertions that your test case worked as you expect.
So you can then process the received message exchanges if you like...
@ContextConfiguration public class MyCamelTest extends AbstractJUnit38SpringContextTests { @Autowired protected CamelContext camelContext; @EndpointInject(uri = "mock:foo") protected MockEndpoint foo; public void testMocksAreValid() throws Exception { // lets add more expectations... MockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(camelContext); // now lets do some further assertions List<Exchange> list = foo.getReceivedExchanges(); for (Exchange exchange : list) { Message in = exchange.getIn(); ... } } }
See Also
- a real example test case using Mock and Spring along with its Spring XML
- Mock endpoint
- Test endpoint