spring-mvc-test – Tarik Billa

Unit testing controllers with CSRF protection enabled in Spring security

November 28, 2023 by Tarik

The way to solve this issue is : import static org.springframework.security.test.web.servlet.request.SecurityMockMvcRequestPostProcessors.*; … @Test public void testLogin() throws Exception { this.mockMvc.perform(post(“/login”) .param(“username”, “…”) .param(“password”, “…”) .with(csrf())) .andExpect(status().isFound()) .andExpect(header().string(“Location”, “redirect-url-on-success-login”)); } The important part is : .with(csrf()) which will add the expected _csrf parameter to the query. The csrf() static method is provided by spring-security-test : <dependency> … Read more

Isolated Controller Test can’t instantiate Pageable

June 6, 2023 by Tarik

Original answer: The problem with pageable can be solved by providing a custom argument handler. If this is set you will run in a ViewResolver Exception (loop). To avoid this you have to set a ViewResolver (an anonymous JSON ViewResolver class for example). mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(controller) .setCustomArgumentResolvers(new PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver()) .setViewResolvers(new ViewResolver() { @Override public View resolveViewName(String … Read more

Failed to load ApplicationContext for JUnit test of Spring controller

May 8, 2023 by Tarik

As mentioned in the discussion: WEB-INF is not really part of the class path. If you use a common template, such as maven, use src/main/resources or src/test/resources to place the app-context.xml in. Then you can use classpath:. Place your config file in src/main/resources/app-context.xml and use the following code: @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) @ContextConfiguration(locations = “classpath:app-context.xml”) public class PersonControllerTest … Read more

Testing Spring MVC @ExceptionHandler method with Spring MVC Test

February 20, 2023 by Tarik

I just had the same issue and the following works for me: @Before public void setup() { this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(statusController) .setControllerAdvice(new ExceptionController()) .build(); }

Mock MVC – Add Request Parameter to test

December 31, 2022 by Tarik

When i analyzed your code. I have also faced the same problem but my problem is if i give value for both first and last name means it is working fine. but when i give only one value means it says 400. anyway use the .andDo(print()) method to find out the error public void testGetUserByName() … Read more

How to avoid the “Circular view path” exception with Spring MVC test

November 21, 2022 by Tarik

@Controller → @RestController I had the same issue and I noticed that my controller was also annotated with @Controller. Replacing it with @RestController solved the issue. Here is the explanation from Spring Web MVC: @RestController is a composed annotation that is itself meta-annotated with @Controller and @ResponseBody indicating a controller whose every method inherits the … Read more