Provide mechanism for disabling automatic annotation-driven autowiring in tests [SPR-6050]

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Sam Brannen opened SPR-6050 and commented

In the Spring TestContext Framework (i.e., specifically in AbstractGenericContextLoader), annotation-driven autowiring is automatically enabled. In other words, all ApplicationContexts created by subclasses of AbstractGenericContextLoader (e.g., GenericXmlContextLoader) are automatically configured to process annotations.

If you explicitly wish that annotation processing not be enabled for the configuration files you specify -- for example, if some of the beans are annotated with @Autowired, etc. but you do not want those beans to be autowired -- you are at a loss: there is currently no way to disable this.

As indirectly suggested in the forum, it would be nice if Spring provided a mechanism for disabling automatic annotation-driven autowiring in tests.

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Affects: 2.5.6

Reference URL: http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=74298

Issue Links:

• Load dedicated child ApplicationContext for test instance in the TestContext framework [SPR-4632] #9309 Load dedicated child ApplicationContext for test instance in the TestContext framework
• Test instances should not be proxied in the TestContext framework [SPR-9478] #14113 Test instances should not be proxied in the TestContext framework

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Sam Brannen commented

This issue is essentially a duplicate of #9309 in some respects, but the difference is that #9309 recommends to have annotation-driven dependency injection enabled only for the test instance; whereas, this issue proposes to provide a mechanism to disable this functionality on a per-test-instance basis.

Thus I'm leaving both issues open until a decision has been made as to what route to take (if either).

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Sam Brannen commented

Resolving this issue as "Won't Fix" since we have opted to implement the "child context" solution proposed in #9309 instead.