Spring ContextConfiguration how to put the right location for the xml

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In our project we are writting a test to check if the controller returns the right modelview   Test     public void controllerReturnsModelToOverzichtpage                 ModelAndView modelView   new ModelAndView            KlasoverzichtController controller   new KlasoverzichtController            modelView   controller showOverzicht             assertEquals  Klasoverzichtcontroller returns the wrong view    modelView getViewName     overzicht            This returns the exception null   We are now configuring the  contextconfiguration but we don t know how to load the right xml who is located at src main webapp root WEB-INF root-context xml   RunWith SpringJUnit4ClassRunner class   ContextConfiguration public class TestOverzichtSenario         This documentation isn t clear enough to understand  Any suggestion on how to make sure the contextannotation loads the right xml   Edit v2  I copied the configuration  xml files from the webINF folder to   src main resources be   a bunch of folders   configuration   xml    and changed the web xml in webinf to    lt param-name gt contextConfigLocation lt  param-name gt   lt param-value gt              classpath  configuration root-context xml             classpath  configuration applicationContext-security xml          lt  param-value gt    and now get the error    org springframework beans factory BeanDefinitionStoreException  IOException parsing XML document from ServletContext resource   WEB-INF mvc-dispatcher-servlet xml   nested exception is java io FileNotFoundException  Could not open ServletContext resource   WEB-INF mvc-dispatcher-servlet xml      org springframework beans factory xml XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions XmlBeanDefinitionReader java 341      org springframework beans factory xml XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions XmlBeanDefinitionReader java 302      org springframework beans factory support AbstractBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractBeanDefinitionReader java 143      org springframework beans factory support AbstractBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractBeanDefinitionReader java 178      org springframework beans factory support AbstractBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions AbstractBeanDefinitionReader java 149      org springframework web context support XmlWebApplicationContext loadBeanDefinitions XmlWebApplicationContext java 124      org springframework web context support XmlWebApplicationContext loadBeanDefinitions XmlWebApplicationContext java 93      org springframework context support AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext refreshBeanFactory AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext java 130      org springframework context support AbstractApplicationContext obtainFreshBeanFactory AbstractApplicationContext java 467      org springframework context support AbstractApplicationContext refresh AbstractApplicationContext java 397      org springframework web servlet FrameworkServlet createWebApplicationContext FrameworkServlet java 442      org springframework web servlet FrameworkServlet createWebApplicationContext FrameworkServlet java 458      org springframework web servlet FrameworkServlet initWebApplicationContext FrameworkServlet java 339      org springframework web servlet FrameworkServlet initServletBean FrameworkServlet java 306      org springframework web servlet HttpServletBean init HttpServletBean java 127      javax servlet GenericServlet init GenericServlet java 212      com springsource insight collection tcserver request HttpRequestOperationCollectionValve invoke HttpRequestOperationCollectionValve java 80      org apache catalina valves ErrorReportValve invoke ErrorReportValve java 102      org apache catalina connector CoyoteAdapter service CoyoteAdapter java 293      org apache coyote http11 Http11Processor process Http11Processor java 849      org apache coyote http11 Http11Protocol Http11ConnectionHandler process Http11Protocol java 583      org apache tomcat util net JIoEndpoint SocketProcessor run JIoEndpoint java 379      java util concurrent ThreadPoolExecutor Worker runTask Unknown Source      java util concurrent ThreadPoolExecutor Worker run Unknown Source      java lang Thread run Unknown Source

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That s the reason not to put configuration into webapp   As far as I know  there are no good ways to access files in webapp folder from the unit tests  You can put your configuration into src main resources instead  so that you can access it from your unit tests  as described in the docs   as well as from the webapp  using classpath  prefix in contextConfigLocation    See also    4 7 Application contexts and Resource paths

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Sometimes it might be something pretty simple like missing your resource file in test-classses folder due to some cleanups

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This is a maven specific problem I think  Maven does not copy the files form  src main resources to the target-test folder  You will have to do this yourself by configuring the resources plugin  if you absolutely want to go this way   An easier way is to instead put a test specific context definition in the  src test resources directory and load via    ContextConfiguration locations      classpath mycontext xml

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Loading the file from   project  src main webapp WEB-INF spring-dispatcher-servlet xml   RunWith SpringJUnit4ClassRunner class   ContextConfiguration locations      file src main webapp WEB-INF spring-dispatcher-servlet xml           WebAppConfiguration public class TestClass        Test     public void test                 test definition here

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We Use    ContextConfiguration locations  file WebContent WEB-INF spitterMVC-servlet xml     the project is a eclipse dynamic web project  then the path is    project name  WebContent WEB-INF spitterMVC-servlet xml

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Our Tests look like this  using Maven and Spring 3 1     ContextConfiguration           classpath beans xml       file src main webapp WEB-INF spring applicationContext xml       file src main webapp WEB-INF spring dispatcher-data-servlet xml       file src main webapp WEB-INF spring dispatcher-servlet xml         RunWith SpringJUnit4ClassRunner class  public class CCustomerCtrlTest      Resource private ApplicationContext m oApplicationContext     Autowired private RequestMappingHandlerAdapter m oHandlerAdapter     Autowired private RequestMappingHandlerMapping m oHandlerMapping    private MockHttpServletRequest m oRequest    private MockHttpServletResponse m oResp    private CCustomerCtrl m oCtrl      more code

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RunWith SpringJUnit4ClassRunner class  ContextConfiguration locations      Beans xml    public class DemoTest

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Simple solution is    ContextConfiguration locations      file src main webapp WEB-INF applicationContext xml       from spring forum

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Suppose you are going to create a test-context xml which is independent from app-context xml for testing  put test-context xml under  src test resources  In the test class  have the  ContextConfiguration annotation on top of the class definition    ContextConfiguration locations     test-context xml   public class MyTests               Spring document Context management

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