Spring boot 2.1 bean override vs. Primary

Question

With Spring Boot 2.1 bean overriding is disabled by default, which is a good thing.

However I do have some tests where I replace beans with mocked instances using Mo

Answer 1

I make the testing beans available only in test profile, and allow overriding for just while testing, like this:

@ActiveProfiles("test")
@SpringBootTest(properties = {"spring.main.allow-bean-definition-overriding=true"})
class FooBarApplicationTests {

  @Test
  void contextLoads() {}
}

The bean I am mocking in the test configuration:

@Profile("test")
@Configuration
public class FooBarApplicationTestConfiguration {
  @Bean
  @Primary
  public SomeBean someBean() {
    return Mockito.mock(SomeBean.class);
  }
}