Issues with @SpringBootTest: Context not loading and Spock unable to @Autowire

Question

I just moved to Spring Boot 1.4.0 to use the new test features. However, I seem to be unable to use them in conjunction with the Spock Framework. Consider the following Spec:

@SpringBootTest(classes=[MainWebApplication.class], webEnvironment =SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
class RestTemplateExampleSpec extends Specification{

@Autowired
private TestRestTemplate restTemplate

def "Web application is Reachable and Status is 200 - OK"(){

    when: "The root address is called"
    def response = restTemplate.getForObject("/", String.class)

    then: "The status code is 200 - OK"
    response.statusCode == HttpStatus.OK

}

def "Endpoint /admin/users is available"(){

    when: "/admin/users is called"
    def response = restTemplate.getForEntity("/admin/users", String.class)

    then: "The status code is 200 - OK"
    response.statusCode == HttpStatus.OK

    }

}

The issue is that the annotation does not even seem to be able to find the MainWebApplication.class (sitting on a package higher in the hierarchy), and consequently, there is no context, so nothing to Autowire. I realize this is pretty new stuff, But documentation so far is not very good, so probably, this question will help others as well.

Woodchopper

Answer 1

The current version of Spock is incompatible with Spring Boot 1.4's @SpringBootTest annotation, you should upgrade your Spock version to 1.1 if you wish to use the new annotations.

For more details, see this answer.

Interspace

Thank you. Strange that you cannot google that. The link in the answer helped – Woodchopper

I also found out the hard way; luckily, Spock's GitHub had commits with indicative names (e.g. Spring Boot 1.4 support or something along those lines) :) – Dupuis