hello! I'm looking into implementing some integrat...

# spring

[Dariusz Kuc]

hello! I'm looking into implementing some integration tests that require starting up the SpringBoot app, running some tests (through a plugin) and shutting down the app through Gradle. Maven has a built-in support for that (i.e. start and stop goals https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/maven-plugin/usage.html).

Based on https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/3982 and https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/1367 looks like there is no out of the box solution for that. Guess this could be done through the custom tasks that rely on Spring Actutator (as suggested here -> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31407323/running-integration-tests-for-a-spring-boot-rest-service-using-gradle). Any suggestions?

[Fleshgrinder]

Why does @SpringBootTest not work? Otherwise I would create a normal task with an exec call in doLast and use Bash to start it in the background, recording the PID and sending a SIGTERM to it once tests completed. Normal Unix stuff always gets the job done.

[thanksforallthefish]

and maybe wrap everything in a docker container to ensure system dependencies are available. but yes, first loo at @SpringBootTest, usually it works well enough

[Fleshgrinder]

Doing that would make it even simpler because you do not need to remember any PID. Just docker-compose up -d and docker-compose kill and you're golden.

[Fleshgrinder]

You might get problems if you need to mount volumes and use something like CircleCI with remote docker daemons though.

[Dariusz Kuc]

simple @SpringBootTest won't work for me as I need to start up app from project_A and then run some task (custom plugin) from project_B

[Dariusz Kuc]

I'd rather avoid putting in the docker dependency if possible but guess might eventually do it as i might need it for another integration test setup as well

[krotki]

If your project_B is dockerized, than I would suggest looking into https://www.testcontainers.org/

[Dariusz Kuc]

trying to test out my libs/plugins with some example projects setup

[Dariusz Kuc]

i.e. example projects work fine as a reference but would love to also run some additional integration tests to ensure stuff works as expected

[Fleshgrinder]

Docker is by far the best solution here because of OS differences.