Disable @Scheduled timers for test in Spring

Problem As soon we have timers in our project they may cause issues in our integration tests, as they start running in the most undesirable situation. E.g. during the trigger a specific function which would usually be triggered by the timer. Solution In the easiest scenario if it is a in memory Spring test we…

Use Session and Request Scope Beans in Tests with Spring

Sometimes it is useful haven the Web Scopes in Unit Tests. Usually Spring just show this very useful error in the Unit Test: Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Scope registered for scope ’session‘ at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:334) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:194) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.findAutowireCandidates(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1120) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.doResolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:1044) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.resolveDependency(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:942) at org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor$AutowiredFieldElement.inject(AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor.java:533) … 28 common frames omitted You can easily have all needed…

Spring Boot Configuration – Properties not loaded

I had recently a very interesting problem using Spring Boot and the automagic concerning the configuration. The Problem org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name ‚demo.MyApplicationTests‘: Injection of autowired dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private java.lang.String demo.MyApplicationTests.url; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Could not resolve placeholder ‚my.url‘ in string value „${my.url}“ at…