Testing Jersey app, Injecting classes using Jersey Injection built-in framework (HK2)

Question

I need to create tests for some class. This class in main project (src/main/java/..) is injected easily into another classes, since I have custom ResourceConfig class which declares which packages have to be scanned to seek for service classes.

Now I created test directories (in src/test/java/..) and created a class, something like:

public class TheMentionedClassIntegrationTest {
    @Inject
    private TheMentionedClass theMentionedClass ;

    @Test
    public void testProcessMethod() {
        assertNotNull(theMentionedClass);
    }
}

But the problem is that whatever I do the class is always null. In another tests in the project I was using JerseyTest class. So I tried to do the same here, extend TheMentionedClassIntegrationTest with JerseyTest, override configure method, create my private ResourceConfig class which registers Binder (default for whole project) and register TheMentionedClassIntegrationTest as well.

It didnt work. I did many different attempts but none of them were successfull. I think working with HK2 is extremly difficult, there is no good documentation or so..

Do you guys have an idea how to inject TheMentionedClass into the test class? Maybe my approach is wrong?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The easiest thing to do is to just create the ServiceLocator and use it to inject the test class, as see here. For example

public class TheMentionedClassIntegrationTest {

    @Inject
    private TheMentionedClass theMentionedClass;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        ServiceLocator locator = ServiceLocatorUtilities.bind(new YourBinder());
        locator.inject(this);
    }

    @Test
    public void testProcessMethod() {
        assertNotNull(theMentionedClass);
    }
}

You could alternatively use (make) a JUnit runner, as seen here.

For some other ideas, you might want to check out the tests for the hk2-testing, and all of its containing projects for some use case examples.