No support for Spring Boot Test version 1.5.x

[vipinjose8683]

Summary

In spring boot test version 1.5.x, the only way to launch a spring boot instance with cucumber is to use @SpringBootTest annotation in one of the stepdef classes. But the cucumber does not support @SpringBootTest. As a result, the spring boot instance does not launch.

Expected Behavior

If the following code is included in the glue code then cucumber should launch a spring boot embedded container

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment=WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
public class SpringBootTestSetup {

	@Given("^there is a local spring boot instance of subject to test against$")
	public void there_is_a_local_instance_of_subject_to_test_against() throws Throwable {
            //This test method is to launch the embedded container that will be tested against
	}

}

Current Behavior

Spring Boot instance does not launch.

Possible Solution

#1061 ?
The above mentioned issue does not clearly state the importance and urgency of the requirement.

Context & Motivation

The workaround was to use the following set of annotations:

@ContextConfiguration(classes = ApplicationInitializer.class, loader = SpringBootContextLoader.class)
@WebIntegrationTest
public class SpringBootTestSetup {

	@Given("^there is a local spring boot instance of subject to test against$")
	public void there_is_a_local_instance_of_subject_to_test_against() throws Throwable {
        //This test method is to launch the embedded container that will be tested against
	}

}

But @WebIntegrationTest (which was deprecated in v1.4) is removed from v1.5 as a single annotation @SpringBootTest achieves the same.
I use spring boot v1.5.x and cannot find any other way to do integration test with cucumber.

[brasmusson]

does not clearly state the importance and urgency of the requirement.

Cucumber-JVM is community supported, see https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm#how-soon-will-my-ticket-be-fixed

If you want to support the development of Cucumber-JVM by other means than providing pull requests, see https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/10/03/invest-in-cucumber

BTW @RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class) has no meaning on glue classes, I recommend that you remove them from the pull-request description to avoid confusion.

[mpkorstanje]

@vipinjose8683 you're lucky I'll need this myself soon.

Would you mind building this branch locally and test driving it for a bit?

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-jvm/tree/spring-support-bootstrap-with-annotation

[vipinjose8683]

@mpkorstanje Thank you.

I built the branch locally and tested it in my use case. The spring boot instance starts up as expected when I add the following class in my glue code.

@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment=WebEnvironment.DEFINED_PORT)
public class SpringBootInstanceLauncher {
	@Given("^there is a local spring boot instance of subject to test against$")
	public void there_is_a_local_instance_of_subject_to_test_against() throws Throwable {
        //This test method is to launch the embedded container that will be tested against
	}
}

(On a side note, i had to skip tests during maven install because test cases in "Examples: Pax Exam: Calculator Test" module was failing.)

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