[CXF-5091] Leverage Spring's @Configuration mechanism to simplify the creation and configuration of client proxies for integration testing

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.7, 3.2.0
• Component/s: JAX-RS
• Labels: client configuration spring
• Estimated Complexity: Unknown
• Assignee: Sergey Beryozkin
• Reporter: Paul Wilson
• Created: 26/Jun/13 10:36
• Updated: 14/Oct/16 14:22
• Resolved: 07/Jul/16 16:11

Description

Spring's Java-driven application context configuration mechanism "@Configuration" could be used to simplify system tests by abstracting the creation and configuration of client proxies.

Spring 3.1 and later ships with a suite of @Enable* annotations that drive the registration of infrastructure beans within the application context. For example, @EnableWebMvc configures the application context with the relevant beans for Spring MVC. The @Enable* annotations are equivalent Spring bean configuration namespace registrations such as <mvc:annotation-driven/>.

A @EnableCxfRsClientProxy could be employed to simplify the creation and configuration of a single test client proxy:

public class MyIntegrationTest {

   @EnableCxfRsClientProxy    
   @Configuration
   static class ConfigureFooClientProxy extends CxfRsClientProxyAdapter {

       @Override
       public Class<?> getServiceType {
          return FooService.class;
       }

   }

   @Autowired
   private FooService clientProxy;

   @Test
   public void should() {
   }

}

Issue Links

• relates to: CXF-5495 JAX-RS Spring integration via Configuration annotation