Spring-boot default profile for integration tests

Question

Spring-boot utilizes Spring profiles (http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/boot-features-profiles.html) which allow for instance to have separate co

Answer 1

To activate "test" profile write in your build.gradle:

    test.doFirst {
        systemProperty 'spring.profiles.active', 'test'
        activeProfiles = 'test'
    }

Answer 2

In my case I have different application.properties depending on the environment, something like:

application.properties (base file)
application-dev.properties
application-qa.properties
application-prod.properties

and application.properties contains a property spring.profiles.active to pick the proper file.

For my integration tests, I created a new application-test.properties file inside test/resources and with the @TestPropertySource({ "/application-test.properties" }) annotation this is the file who is in charge of picking the application.properties I want depending on my needs for those tests

Answer 3

Another way to do this is to define a base (abstract) test class that your actual test classes will extend :

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest()
@ActiveProfiles("staging")
public abstract class BaseIntegrationTest {
}

Concrete test :

public class SampleSearchServiceTest extends BaseIntegrationTest{

    @Inject
    private SampleSearchService service;

    @Test
    public void shouldInjectService(){
        assertThat(this.service).isNotNull();
    }
} 

This allows you to extract more than just the @ActiveProfiles annotation. You could also imagine more specialised base classes for different kinds of integration tests, e.g. data access layer vs service layer, or for functional specialties (common @Before or @After methods etc).

Answer 4

Add spring.profiles.active=tests in your application.properties file, you can add multiple properties file in your spring boot application like application-stage.properties, application-prod.properties, etc. And you can specify in your application.properties file while file to refer by adding spring.profiles.active=stage or spring.profiles.active=prod

you can also pass the profile at the time running the spring boot application by providing the command:

java -jar-Dspring.profiles.active=localbuild/libs/turtle-rnr-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

According to the profile name the properties file is picked up, in the above case passing profile local consider the application-local.properties file

Answer 5

If you use maven, you can add this in pom.xml:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <argLine>-Dspring.profiles.active=test</argLine>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
        ...

Then, maven should run your integration tests (*IT.java) using this arugument, and also IntelliJ will start with this profile activated - so you can then specify all properties inside

application-test.yml

and you should not need "-default" properties.

Answer 6

A delarative way to do that (In fact, a minor tweek to @Compito's original answer):

1. Set spring.profiles.active=test in test/resources/application-default.properties.
2. Add test/resources/application-test.properties for tests and override only the properties you need.