This commit introduces a dedicated build() method in
MockMvcWebClientBuilder to replace createWebClient(). In addition, the
configureWebClient() method has been renamed to withDelegate() and now
returns the builder for further customization.
This commit also overhauls the constructor and class-level Javadoc in
MockMvcWebClientBuilder for greater clarity to end users.
Issues SPR-13158
This commit introduces integration between MockMvc and HtmlUnit, thus
simplifying end-to-end testing when using HTML-based views and enabling
developers to do the following.
- Easily test HTML pages using tools such as HtmlUnit, WebDriver, & Geb
without the need to deploy to a Servlet container
- Test JavaScript within pages
- Optionally test using mock services to speed up testing
- Share logic between in-container, end-to-end tests and
out-of-container integration tests
Issue: SPR-13158
Due to common usage of @Rollback(false), this commit introduces a new
@Commit annotation that more clearly conveys the intent of the code
while retaining the run-time semantics.
@Commit is in fact meta-annotated with @Rollback(false).
Issue: SPR-13279
Since Spring Framework 2.5, @Rollback has been supported on test
methods, with class-level rollback settings configured via
@TransactionConfiguration; however, allowing @Rollback to be declared
on test classes with method-level declarations overriding class-level
declarations would prove more intuitive than having to declare both
@TransactionConfiguration and @Rollback. Furthermore, the
transactionManager flag in @TransactionConfiguration was made
superfluous many years ago with the introduction of support for a
qualifier in @Transactional.
This commit enables @Rollback to be declared at the class level for
default rollback semantics within test class hierarchies and deprecates
@TransactionConfiguration in favor of @Rollback and @Transactional
qualifiers.
Issue: SPR-13276, SPR-13277
Add section on Spring MVC TEst vs full integation testing and provide
reference to Spring Boot's @WebIntegrationTest as an alternative.
Issue: SPR-13169
Prior to this commit, @DirtiesContext could only be used to close a
test ApplicationContext after an entire test class or after a test
method; however, there are some use cases for which it would be
beneficial to close a test ApplicationContext before a given test class
or test method -- for example, if some rogue (i.e., yet to be
determined) test within a large test suite has corrupted the original
configuration for the ApplicationContext.
This commit provides a solution to such testing challenges by
introducing the following modes for @DirtiesContext.
- MethodMode.BEFORE_METHOD: configured via the new methodMode attribute
- ClassMode.BEFORE_CLASS and ClassMode.BEFORE_EACH_TEST_METHOD: both
configured via the existing classMode attribute
Issue: SPR-12429
The upgrade to a more recent asciidoc format led to a bunch of of
broken Admonition as the text block now requires four equal signs while
previous versions tolerated only 3.
Issue: SPR-12791
Core and Web chapters are important chapters in the Spring Framework
reference documentation, and splitting them in multiple files will
help to evolve the documentation while not creating too many files.
Issue: SPR-12309
The reference documentation is now organized in asciidoc bookparts.
Bookparts sections can be also put in separate files, when their
size and theme are important enough to justify that.
Documentation Layout:
```
index
|-- overview
|
|-- whats-new
|
|-- core
| |-- core-beans
| |-- core-aop
|-- testing
|
|-- data-access
|
|-- web
| |-- web-mvc
| |-- web-view
|-- integration
|
|-- appendix
|-- appx-spring-tld
|-- appx-spring-form-tld
```
Supersedes and closes#641
Issue: SPR-12309