Context Configuration with XML resources
To load an ApplicationContext for your tests by using XML configuration files, annotate
your test class with @ContextConfiguration and configure the locations attribute with
an array that contains the resource locations of XML configuration metadata. A plain or
relative path (for example, context.xml) is treated as a classpath resource that is
relative to the package in which the test class is defined. A path starting with a slash
is treated as an absolute classpath location (for example, /org/example/config.xml). A
path that represents a resource URL (i.e., a path prefixed with classpath:, file:,
http:, etc.) is used as is.
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Java
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Kotlin
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from "/app-config.xml" and
// "/test-config.xml" in the root of the classpath
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {"/app-config.xml", "/test-config.xml"}) (1)
class MyTest {
// class body...
}| 1 | Setting the locations attribute to a list of XML files. |
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension::class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from "/app-config.xml" and
// "/test-config.xml" in the root of the classpath
@ContextConfiguration(locations = ["/app-config.xml", "/test-config.xml"]) (1)
class MyTest {
// class body...
}| 1 | Setting the locations attribute to a list of XML files. |
@ContextConfiguration supports an alias for the locations attribute through the
standard Java value attribute. Thus, if you do not need to declare additional
attributes in @ContextConfiguration, you can omit the declaration of the locations
attribute name and declare the resource locations by using the shorthand format
demonstrated in the following example:
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Java
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Kotlin
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
@ContextConfiguration({"/app-config.xml", "/test-config.xml"}) (1)
class MyTest {
// class body...
}| 1 | Specifying XML files without using the locations attribute. |
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension::class)
@ContextConfiguration("/app-config.xml", "/test-config.xml") (1)
class MyTest {
// class body...
}| 1 | Specifying XML files without using the locations attribute. |
If you omit both the locations and the value attributes from the
@ContextConfiguration annotation, the TestContext framework tries to detect a default
XML resource location. Specifically, GenericXmlContextLoader and
GenericXmlWebContextLoader detect a default location based on the name of the test
class. If your class is named com.example.MyTest, GenericXmlContextLoader loads your
application context from "classpath:com/example/MyTest-context.xml". The following
example shows how to do so:
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Java
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Kotlin
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension.class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from
// "classpath:com/example/MyTest-context.xml"
@ContextConfiguration (1)
class MyTest {
// class body...
}| 1 | Loading configuration from the default location. |
@ExtendWith(SpringExtension::class)
// ApplicationContext will be loaded from
// "classpath:com/example/MyTest-context.xml"
@ContextConfiguration (1)
class MyTest {
// class body...
}| 1 | Loading configuration from the default location. |
