Spring MVC

This blog post is outdated! If you want to learn how you can write unit tests for Spring MVC controllers, you should take a look at my updated Spring MVC Test tutorial. It describes how you can write unit tests for Spring MVC controllers with JUnit 5. The first part of this tutorial described how […] Read More

This blog post is outdated! If you want to learn how you can write unit tests for Spring MVC controllers, you should take a look at my updated Spring MVC Test tutorial. It describes how you can write unit tests for Spring MVC controllers with JUnit 5. Writing unit tests for Spring MVC controllers has […] Read More

I am a bit ashamed to admit this but until yesterday, I had no idea that I can add validation to a REST API by using the @Valid and the @RequestBody annotations. This was not working in Spring MVC 3.0 and for some reason I had not noticed that the support for this was added […] Read More

The previous parts of my Spring MVC Test tutorial have described how we can write integration tests for a REST API. Although the techniques described in those blog posts are useful, the problem is that our assertions were not very elegant. Our assertions were basically ensuring that the body of the HTTP response contained the […] Read More

When Spring Framework 3.2 was released, spring-test-mvc was officially included in this release under the name Spring MVC Test Framework. Although many things remained the same, there are some changes that might cause confusion when we are migrating our applications from Spring Framework 3.1 to 3.2. This blog entry was written to help us to […] Read More

In the previous parts of my spring-test-mvc tutorial, we learned to write integration tests for our controllers. However, we have not talked about security yet, even though securing our data is a crucial part of (almost) every application. This is the sixth part of my spring-test-mvc tutorial and it will teach us to write integration […] Read More