Question

Following the instructions here, but i get the error unable to autowire WebApplicationContext.

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration("applicationContext-test.xml")
@WebAppConfiguration
public class AjaxTest {

@Autowired
private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext; //FAILS

But this compiles :

@Autowired
ServletContext servletContext;

private WebApplicationContext webApplicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(servletContext);

And I don’t understand why.

Edit
It runs fine using maven, it was my editor intellij showing an incorrect auto compile message, a bug in fact.

Answer 1

Your test class should implement ApplicationContextAware interface:

public class ApplicationContextProvider implements ApplicationContextAware {
           private static ApplicationContext applicationContext = null;

            public static ApplicationContext getApplicationContext() {
                return applicationContext;
            }
            public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) throws BeansException {
                 this.applicationContext = applicationContext;
            }
      }

Spring will automatically inject the application context.