springboot read tomcat-context.xml

Question

Hi we got a spring application running on tomcat application-server. I want to add integration tests with Springboot in JUnit. I now got the problem that the embedded tomcat

Answer 1

Spring Boot offer many ways to externalize your configuration...

You can define your datasource properties in your tomcat/conf/Catalina/<host> context descriptors.

You could define your jndi name:

<Context>
    <Parameter name="spring.datasource.jndi-name" value="/pathToYourDatasource" />
</Context>

Or define the datasource:

<Context>
    <Parameter name="spring.datasource.url" value="your url" />
    <Parameter name="spring.datasource.username" value="your username" />
    <Parameter name="spring.datasource.password" value="your password" />
</Context>

Even define the path to an application.properties and set here your configuration:

<Context>
    <Parameter name="spring.config.location" value="/path/to/application.properties" />
</Context>

This way is not necessary set programmatically your hardcoded datasource and you can put another database configuration for testing in src/test/resources/application.properties:

spring.datasource.url=
spring.datasource.username=
spring.datasource.password=