Spring boot RC1 is available.
Update : RC3 released I updated the project.
It takes spring development and fast prototyping to a whole new level by taking care of all the dependencies for you, auto-detecting your configuration, providing an executable jar (great for deploying in the cloud), and much more.
In this post we’ll see how to integrate spring-boot with jersey, including testing of Jersey controllers with jersey-test.
Of course, the source code is available on my github.
Setting up spring-boot
Spring boot aims towards simplicity and convention over configuration. First step is to include the necessary configuration in your pom.xml :
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.RC3</version>
</parent>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<name>Spring Milestones</name>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
One of the good ideas of spring boot is to provide all the ‘boilerplate’ configuration for you by letting you inherit their parent configuration.
Then, you’ll select a starter, in this case, we are going to develop a web application, so starter-web is fine.
Now, we’ll create a main function for our application :
@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Application {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
new SpringApplicationBuilder(Application.class)
.showBanner(false)
.run(args);
}
}
We will just add an index.html file in the webapp directory and we should be ok. With this configuration, you can run the main function and you’ll see your index file.
Awesome.
Runnable jar
Spring boot allows you to package your application as a runnable jar. Include the following in your pom.xml :
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>spring-milestones</id>
<url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
With this, when running mvn package, you will generate the runnable jar.
Just java -jar it to launch an embedded Tomcat containing your webapp!
Integrating jersey
Jersey has a spring support project jersey-spring-3. Despite what its name suggests, the project is (still?) compatible with spring 4.0 so we’ll use it.
It basically allows you to inject spring beans in your jersey controllers.
To complete our configuration we’ll add the jersey servlet to our application together with a small class to configure it.
In the Application :
@Bean
public ServletRegistrationBean jerseyServlet() {
ServletRegistrationBean registration = new ServletRegistrationBean(new ServletContainer(), "/rest/*");
// our rest resources will be available in the path /rest/*
registration.addInitParameter(ServletProperties.JAXRS_APPLICATION_CLASS, JerseyConfig.class.getName());
return registration;
}
We also need to add the @ComponentScan annotation to find our spring services and components (including jersey)
Next, we’ll create the JerseyConfig class :
public class JerseyConfig extends ResourceConfig {
public JerseyConfig() {
register(RequestContextFilter.class);
packages("com.geowarin.rest");
register(LoggingFilter.class);
}
}
Here we are providing the package(s) in which our rest resources are.
Speaking about our rest resources, we’ll create a simple one :
@Path("/")
@Component
public class RestResource {
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Path("/hello")
public String hello() {
return "Hello World";
}
}
There you have it : the dreadful hello world !
In the complete example, I show you how to generate JSON from a domain class.
Basically all you have to do is provide classes with the @XmlRootElement annotation, add the getters and setters for the properties you want serialized and don’t forget to provide a default constructor (see here).
To show that dependency injection works, we’ll add a simple service :
@Singleton
@Service
public class MessageService {
List<Message> messages = Collections.synchronizedList(new ArrayList<Message>());
@PostConstruct
public void init() {
messages.add(new Message("Joe", "Hello"));
messages.add(new Message("Jane", "Spring boot is cool !"));
}
public List<Message> getMessages() {
return messages;
}
}
We can now autowire it to our Jersey controller!
@Path("/")
@Component
public class RestResource {
@Autowired
private MessageService messageService;
@GET
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
@Path("/messages")
public List<Message> message() {
return messageService.getMessages();
}
}
Moxy will automatically convert the returned result to JSON.
Testing
Real programmers do tests. We want to test our controller right? There is a framework for that: jersey-test.
The Problem? it does not (yet) support annotated configuration.
Update : I submitted a pull request which has been accepted by Jersey. I updated the project to use the 2.6 snapshot release of jersey which includes the modified SpringComponentProvider.
Now the test :
public class RestResourceTest extends JerseyTest {
@Override
protected Application configure() {
ApplicationContext context = new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(TestConfig.class);
return new JerseyConfig()
.property("contextConfig", context);
}
@Test
public void testHello() {
final String hello = target("hello").request().get(String.class);
assertThat(hello).isEqualTo("Hello World");
}
@Test
public void testMessages() throws JSONException {
final String messages = target("messages").request().get(String.class);
String expected = "[ " +
"{ 'author': 'Joe', 'contents': 'Hello'}," +
"{ 'author': 'Jane', 'contents': 'Spring boot is cool !'}" +
"]";
JSONAssert.assertEquals(expected, messages, JSONCompareMode.LENIENT);
}
}
Jersey Test will automatically select a provider from your classpath, in the example I’m using the in memory provider which I believe to be the fastest but you can also use grizzly and others instead.
I’m using JSONassert to test json results.
In the example, we are providing a simple, lighter TestConfig :
@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = RestResource.class)
public class TestConfig {
}
Conclusion
Testing with Jersey Test is fast and intuitive.
Spring boot is a nice addition to the spring ecosystem. Now that everything should be accessible from the cloud, so should be spring webapps !