Add first class support for testing Spring MVC applications [SPR-9859]

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Rossen Stoyanchev opened SPR-9859 and commented

This is based on the spring-test-mvc project that has been available on Github, as a separate project, for over a year. The project provides a fluent API for performing requests and verifying expectations on the resulting responses. It executes requests using an instance of DispatcherServlet and passes to it a MockHttpServletRequest and MockHttpServletResponse, i.e. without the need for a running a Servlet container.

WebApplicationContext wac = ...;

MockMvc mockMvc = webAppContextSetup(wac).configureWarRootDir("src/main/webapp", false).build()

mockMvc.perform(get("/form"))
    .andExpect(status().isOk())
    .andExpect(content().mimeType("text/html"))
    .andExpect(forwardedUrl("/WEB-INF/layouts/main.jsp"));

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Affects: 3.1.2

Issue Links:

• Support loading WebApplicationContexts with the TestContext Framework [SPR-5243] #9917 Support loading WebApplicationContexts with the TestContext Framework
• Add first class support for client-side REST tests [SPR-7951] #12606 Add first class support for client-side REST tests
• Add documentation for the Spring MVC Test support [SPR-9860] #14493 Add documentation for the Spring MVC Test support
• Release 1.0 spring-test-mvc [SPR-9211] #13849 Release 1.0 spring-test-mvc