Spring dependency injection into Spring TestExecutionListeners not working

Question

How can I use Spring dependency injection into a TestExecutionListener class I wrote extending AbstractTestExecutionListener?

Spring DI does not seem to work with Te

Answer 1

In the case of Spring Boot 2 using

estContext.getApplicationContext()
        .getAutowireCapableBeanFactory()
        .autowireBean(this)

was triggering the creation of the Spring context before the @SpringBootTest base class was created. This missed then some critical configuration parameters in my case. I had to use testContext.getApplicationContext().getBean( in beforeTestClass for getting a bean instance.

Answer 2

Just add autowiring for the whole TestExecutionListener.

@Override
public void beforeTestClass(TestContext testContext) throws Exception {
    testContext.getApplicationContext()
            .getAutowireCapableBeanFactory()
            .autowireBean(this);
    // your code that uses autowired fields
}

Check sample project in github.