Spring 3.1 MVC unit testing with annotated controllers, JAXB2 marshalling, and @PathVariable annotations

foo-servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
    xmlns:oxm="http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-3.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.1.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/oxm/spring-oxm-3.1.xsd">
            
    <context:component-scan base-package="foo.bar.baz"/>

    <mvc:annotation-driven>
        <mvc:message-converters>
            <!-- no ref support yet, see https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-8252 -->
            <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.MarshallingHttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="marshaller" ref="marshaller" />
                <property name="unmarshaller" ref="marshaller" />
            </bean>
        </mvc:message-converters>
    </mvc:annotation-driven>

    <bean id="marshallingHttpMessageConverter"
      class="org.springframework.http.converter.xml.MarshallingHttpMessageConverter">
        <property name="marshaller" ref="marshaller" />
        <property name="unmarshaller" ref="marshaller" />
    </bean>
    
    <oxm:jaxb2-marshaller id="marshaller">
        <oxm:class-to-be-bound name="foo.bar.baz.JAXBAnnotatedClass"/>
    </oxm:jaxb2-marshaller>

    <bean id="restTemplate" class="org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate">
        <property name="messageConverters">
            <util:list>
                <ref bean="marshallingHttpMessageConverter"/>
            </util:list>
        </property>
    </bean>

</beans>

FooTest.java

package foo.bar.baz;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import junit.framework.Assert;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletResponse;
import org.springframework.test.context.ContextConfiguration;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerAdapter;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerExecutionChain;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerInterceptor;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.HandlerMapping;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration({"file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml",
    "file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/foo-servlet.xml"})
public class ControllerTest {
    
    @Autowired
    private HandlerAdapter handlerAdapter;
    
    @Autowired
    private HandlerMapping handlerMapping;
    
    private MockHttpServletRequest request;
    private MockHttpServletResponse response;
    
    private ModelAndView handle(final HttpServletRequest request, final HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
        final HandlerExecutionChain handler = handlerMapping.getHandler(request);
        Assert.assertNotNull("No handler found for request, check you request mapping", handler);
        final Object controller = handler.getHandler();
        for (final HandlerInterceptor interceptor : handlerMapping.getHandler(request).getInterceptors()) {
            if (!interceptor.preHandle(request, response, controller)) {
                return null;
            }
        }
        return handlerAdapter.handle(request, response, controller);
    }
    
    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
        response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
    }

    @Test
    public void test1() throws Exception {
        request.setContentType("application/xml");
        request.setMethod("GET");
        request.setRequestURI("/test1");
        final ModelAndView mav = handle(request, response);
        Assert.assertTrue(response.getContentAsString().contains("worked"));
    }
    
}

pom-fragment.xml

...

    <properties>
        <spring.version>3.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</spring.version>
        <joda-time.version>1.6.2</joda-time.version>
        <slf4j.version>1.6.1</slf4j.version>
    </properties>
    
    <repositories>	
        <repository>
            <id>org.springframework.maven.snapshot</id>
            <name>Spring Maven Snapshot Repository</name>
            <url>http://maven.springframework.org/snapshot</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>true</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
    </repositories>


    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
            <version>r09</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
            <version>4.1.1</version>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
                    <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.yaml</groupId>
            <artifactId>snakeyaml</artifactId>
            <version>1.8</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
            <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
            <version>${joda-time.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
            <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
            <version>0.9.26</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
            <version>${slf4j.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.5</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
            <version>2.1</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>jstl</artifactId>
            <version>1.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.7</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
            <version>${spring.version}</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

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