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Exploring the Spring Boot TestRestTemplate
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The Apache HTTP Client is a very robust library, suitable for both simple and advanced use cases when testing HTTP endpoints. Check out our guide covering basic request and response handling, as well as security, cookies, timeouts, and more:
1. Overview
This article explores the Spring Boot TestRestTemplate. It can be treated as a follow-up of The Guide to RestTemplate, which we firmly recommend to read before focusing on TestRestTemplate. TestRestTemplate can be considered as an attractive alternative of RestTemplate.
2. Maven Dependencies
To use TestRestTemplate, you are required to have an appropriate dependency like:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-test</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>You can find the latest version on Maven Central.
3. TestRestTemplate and RestTemplate
Both of these clients are quite suitable for writing integration tests and can handle communicating with HTTP APIs very well.
For example, they provide us with the same methods standard methods, headers, and other HTTP constructs.
And all of these operations are well described in The Guide to RestTemplate, so we won’t revisit them here.
Here’s a simple GET request example:
TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate = new TestRestTemplate();
ResponseEntity<String> response = testRestTemplate.
getForEntity(FOO_RESOURCE_URL + "/1", String.class);
Assertions.assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpStatus.OK);
Despite the fact that both classes are very similar, TestRestTemplate does not extend RestTemplate and does offer a few very exciting new features.
4. What’s New in TestRestTemplate?
4.1. Constructor With Basic Auth Credentials
TestRestTemplate provides a constructor with which we can create a template with specified credentials for basic authentication.
All requests performed using this instance will be authenticated using provided credentials:
TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate
= new TestRestTemplate("user", "passwd");
ResponseEntity<String> response = testRestTemplate.
getForEntity(URL_SECURED_BY_AUTHENTICATION, String.class);
Assertions.assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpStatus.OK);
4.2. Constructor With HttpClientOption
TestRestTemplate also enables us to customize the underlying Apache HTTP client using the HttpClientOption which is an enum in TestRestTemplate with the following options: ENABLE_COOKIES, ENABLE_REDIRECTS, and SSL.
Let’s see a quick example:
TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate = new TestRestTemplate("user",
"passwd", TestRestTemplate.HttpClientOption.ENABLE_COOKIES);
ResponseEntity<String> response = testRestTemplate.
getForEntity(URL_SECURED_BY_AUTHENTICATION, String.class);
Assertions.assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpStatus.OK);In the above example, we’re using the options together with Basic Authentication.
If we don’t need authentication, we still can create a template with a simple constructor:
TestRestTemplate(TestRestTemplate.HttpClientOption.ENABLE_COOKIES)
4.3. New Method
Not only can constructors create a template with specified credentials. We can also add credentials after our template is created. TestRestTemplate gives us a method withBasicAuth() which adds credentials to an already existing template:
TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate = new TestRestTemplate();
ResponseEntity<String> response = testRestTemplate.withBasicAuth(
"user", "passwd").getForEntity(URL_SECURED_BY_AUTHENTICATION,
String.class);
Assertions.assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpStatus.OK);
5. Using Both TestRestTemplate and RestTemplate
TestRestTemplate can work as a wrapper for RestTemplate, e.g. if we are forced to use it because we are dealing with legacy code. You can see below how to create such a simple wrapper:
RestTemplateBuilder restTemplateBuilder = new RestTemplateBuilder();
restTemplateBuilder.configure(restTemplate);
TestRestTemplate testRestTemplate = new TestRestTemplate(restTemplateBuilder);
ResponseEntity<String> response = testRestTemplate.getForEntity(
FOO_RESOURCE_URL + "/1", String.class);
Assertions.assertEquals(response.getStatusCode(), HttpStatus.OK);6. Conclusion
TestRestTemplate is not an extension of RestTemplate, but rather an alternative that simplifies integration testing and facilitates authentication during tests. It helps in customization of Apache HTTP client, but also it can be used as a wrapper of RestTemplate.
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