How do I write a unit test to verify async behavior using Spring 4 and annotations?

Question

How do I write a unit test to verify async behavior using Spring 4 and annotations?

Since i\'m used to Spring\'s (old) xml style), it took me some time to figure thi

Answer 1

First the service that exposes an async download method:

@Service
public class DownloadService {
    // note: placing this async method in its own dedicated bean was necessary
    //       to circumvent inner bean calls
    @Async
    public Future startDownloading(final URL url) throws IOException {
        return new AsyncResult(getContentAsString(url));
    }

    private String getContentAsString(URL url) throws IOException {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(1000);  // To demonstrate the effect of async
            InputStream input = url.openStream();
            return IOUtils.toString(input, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
        }
    }
}

Next the test:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@ContextConfiguration
public class DownloadServiceTest {

    @Configuration
    @EnableAsync
    static class Config {
        @Bean
        public DownloadService downloadService() {
            return new DownloadService();
        }
    }

    @Autowired
    private DownloadService service;

    @Test
    public void testIndex() throws Exception {
        final URL url = new URL("http://spring.io/blog/2013/01/16/next-stop-spring-framework-4-0");
        Future content = service.startDownloading(url);
        assertThat(false, equalTo(content.isDone()));
        final String str = content.get();
        assertThat(true, equalTo(content.isDone()));
        assertThat(str, JUnitMatchers.containsString("