Testing

Testing is a crucial activity in any piece of software development or integration. Typically Camel Riders use various different technologies wired together in a variety of patterns with different expression languages together with different forms of Bean Integration and Dependency Injection so its very easy for things to go wrong! . Testing is the crucial weapon to ensure that things work as you would expect .

Camel is a Java library so you can easily wire up tests in whatever unit testing framework you use (JUnit 3.x (deprecated) or 4.x). However the Camel project has tried to make the testing of Camel as easy and powerful as possible so we have introduced the following features.

Testing mechanisms

The following mechanisms are supported

Name Component Description

Camel Test

camel-test

Is a standalone Java library letting you easily create Camel test cases using a single Java class for all your configuration and routing without using CDI or Spring for Dependency Injection which does not require an in-depth knowledge of CDI or Spring + Spring Test. Supports JUnit 3.x (deprecated) and JUnit 4.x based tests.

CDI Testing

camel-test-cdi

Provides a JUnit 4 runner that bootstraps a test environment using CDI so that you don’t have to be familiar with any CDI testing frameworks and can concentrate on the testing logic of your Camel CDI applications.
Testing frameworks like Arquillian or PAX Exam, can be used for more advanced test cases, where you need to configure your system under test in a very fine-grained way or target specific CDI containers.

Spring Testing

camel-test-spring

Supports JUnit 3.x (deprecated) or JUnit 4.x based tests that bootstrap a test environment using Spring without needing to be familiar with Spring Test. The plain JUnit 3.x/4.x based tests work very similar to the test support classes in camel-test. Also supports Spring Test based tests that use the declarative style of test configuration and injection common in Spring Test. The Spring Test based tests provide feature parity with the plain JUnit 3.x/4.x based testing approach. Notice camel-test-spring is a new component in Camel 2.10 onwards. For older Camel release use camel-test which has built-in Spring Testing.

Blueprint Testing

camel-test-blueprint

Camel 2.10: Provides the ability to do unit testing on blueprint configurations

In all approaches the test classes look pretty much the same in that they all reuse the Camel binding and injection annotations.

Camel Test Example

Here is the Camel Test example:

public class FilterTest extends ContextTestSupport {

    @Test
    public void testSendMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint resultEndpoint = resolveMandatoryEndpoint("mock:result", MockEndpoint.class);
        resultEndpoint.expectedMessageCount(1);
        resultEndpoint.message(0).exchangeProperty(Exchange.FILTER_MATCHED).isEqualTo(true);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader("direct:start", "<matched/>", "foo", "bar");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @Test
    public void testSendNotMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        MockEndpoint resultEndpoint = resolveMandatoryEndpoint("mock:result", MockEndpoint.class);
        resultEndpoint.expectedMessageCount(0);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader("direct:start", "<notMatched/>", "foo", "notMatchedHeaderValue");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @Override
    protected RouteBuilder createRouteBuilder() {
        return new RouteBuilder() {
            public void configure() {
                from("direct:start").filter(header("foo").isEqualTo("bar")).to("mock:result");
            }
        };
    }

}

Notice how it derives from the Camel helper class CamelTestSupport but has no CDI or Spring dependency injection configuration but instead overrides the createRouteBuilder() method.

CDI Test Example

Here is the CDI Testing example:

@RunWith(CamelCdiRunner.class)
public class FilterTest {

    @EndpointInject("mock:result")
    protected MockEndpoint resultEndpoint;

    @Produce("direct:start")
    protected ProducerTemplate template;

    @Before
    public void before() {
        resultEndpoint.reset();
    }

    @Test
    public void testSendMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        String expectedBody = "<matched/>";

        resultEndpoint.expectedBodiesReceived(expectedBody);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader(expectedBody, "foo", "bar");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @Test
    public void testSendNotMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        resultEndpoint.expectedMessageCount(0);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader("<notMatched/>", "foo", "notMatchedHeaderValue");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    static class ContextConfig extends RouteBuilder {

        @Override
        public void configure() {
            from("direct:start").filter(header("foo").isEqualTo("bar")).to("mock:result");
        }
    }
}

You can find more testing patterns illustrated in the camel-example-cdi-test example and the test classes that come with it.

Spring Test with XML Config Example

Here is the Spring Testing example using XML Config:

@ContextConfiguration
public class FilterTest extends SpringRunWithTestSupport {

    @EndpointInject("mock:result")
    protected MockEndpoint resultEndpoint;

    @Produce("direct:start")
    protected ProducerTemplate template;

    @DirtiesContext
    @Test
    public void testSendMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        String expectedBody = "<matched/>";

        resultEndpoint.expectedBodiesReceived(expectedBody);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader(expectedBody, "foo", "bar");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @DirtiesContext
    @Test
    public void testSendNotMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        resultEndpoint.expectedMessageCount(0);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader("<notMatched/>", "foo", "notMatchedHeaderValue");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }
}

Notice that we use @DirtiesContext on the test methods to force Spring Testing to automatically reload the CamelContext after each test method - this ensures that the tests don’t clash with each other (e.g. one test method sending to an endpoint that is then reused in another test method).

Also notice the use of @ContextConfiguration to indicate that by default we should look for the FilterTest-context.xml on the classpath to configure the test case which looks like this:

<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
       xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
       xsi:schemaLocation="
       http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
       http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd
    ">

  <camelContext xmlns="http://camel.apache.org/schema/spring">
    <route>
      <from uri="direct:start"/>
      <filter>
        <xpath>$foo = 'bar'</xpath>
        <to uri="mock:result"/>
      </filter>
    </route>
  </camelContext>

</beans>

Spring Test with Java Config Example

Here is the Spring Testing example using Java Config:

@CamelSpringTest
@ContextConfiguration(classes = FilterTest.ContextConfig.class)
public class FilterTest {

    @EndpointInject("mock:result")
    protected MockEndpoint resultEndpoint;

    @Produce("direct:start")
    protected ProducerTemplate template;

    @DirtiesContext
    @org.junit.jupiter.api.Test
    public void testSendMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        String expectedBody = "<matched/>";

        resultEndpoint.expectedBodiesReceived(expectedBody);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader(expectedBody, "foo", "bar");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @DirtiesContext
    @Test
    public void testSendNotMatchingMessage() throws Exception {
        resultEndpoint.expectedMessageCount(0);

        template.sendBodyAndHeader("<notMatched/>", "foo", "notMatchedHeaderValue");

        resultEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }

    @Configuration
    public static class ContextConfig extends SingleRouteCamelConfiguration {
        @Override
        @Bean
        public RouteBuilder route() {
            return new RouteBuilder() {
                public void configure() {
                    from("direct:start").filter(header("foo").isEqualTo("bar")).to("mock:result");
                }
            };
        }
    }
}

For more information see Spring Java Config.

This is similar to the XML Config example above except that there is no XML file and instead the nested ContextConfig class does all of the configuration; so your entire test case is contained in a single Java class. We currently have to reference by class name this class in the @ContextConfiguration which is a bit ugly. Please vote for SJC-238 to address this and make Spring Test work more cleanly with Spring JavaConfig.

It’s totally optional but for the ContextConfig implementation we derive from SingleRouteCamelConfiguration which is a helper Spring Java Config class which will configure the CamelContext for us and then register the RouteBuilder we create.

Since Camel 2.11.0 you can use the CamelSpringJUnit4ClassRunner with CamelSpringDelegatingTestContextLoader like example using Java Config with CamelSpringJUnit4ClassRunner:

Since Camel 2.18.0 CamelSpringJUnit4ClassRunner is deprecated. you can use the CamelSpringRunner

@CamelSpringTest
@ContextConfiguration(classes = CamelSpringDelegatingTestContextLoaderTest.TestConfig.class)
@MockEndpoints
public class CamelSpringDelegatingTestContextLoaderTest {
    @EndpointInject("mock:direct:end")
    protected MockEndpoint endEndpoint;

    @EndpointInject("mock:direct:error")
    protected MockEndpoint errorEndpoint;

    @Produce("direct:test")
    protected ProducerTemplate testProducer;

    @Configuration
    public static class TestConfig extends SingleRouteCamelConfiguration {
        @Bean
        @Override
        public RouteBuilder route() {
            return new RouteBuilder() {
                @Override
                public void configure() throws Exception {
                    from("direct:test").errorHandler(deadLetterChannel("direct:error")).to("direct:end");

                    from("direct:error").log("Received message on direct:error endpoint.");

                    from("direct:end").log("Received message on direct:end endpoint.");
                }
            };
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testRoute() throws InterruptedException {
        endEndpoint.expectedMessageCount(1);
        errorEndpoint.expectedMessageCount(0);

        testProducer.sendBody("<name>test</name>");

        endEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
        errorEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied();
    }
}

Spring Test with XML Config and Declarative Configuration Example

Here is a Camel test support enhanced Spring Testing example using XML Config and pure Spring Test based configuration of the Camel Context:

@RunWith(CamelSpringRunner.class)
// must tell Spring to bootstrap with Camel
@BootstrapWith(CamelTestContextBootstrapper.class)
@ContextConfiguration()
// Put here to prevent Spring context caching across tests and test methods since some tests inherit
// from this test and therefore use the same Spring context.  Also because we want to reset the
// Camel context and mock endpoints between test methods automatically.
@DirtiesContext(classMode = ClassMode.AFTER_EACH_TEST_METHOD)
public class CamelSpringRunnerPlainTest {

    @Autowired
    protected CamelContext camelContext;

    @EndpointInject(value = "mock:a")
    protected MockEndpoint mockA;

    @EndpointInject(value = "mock:b")
    protected MockEndpoint mockB;

    @Produce(value = "direct:start")
    protected ProducerTemplate start;

    @Test
    public void testPositive() throws Exception {
        assertEquals(ServiceStatus.Started, camelContext.getStatus());

        mockA.expectedBodiesReceived("David");
        mockB.expectedBodiesReceived("Hello David");

        start.sendBody("David");

        MockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(camelContext);
    }

    @Test
    public void testJmx() throws Exception {
        assertEquals(DefaultManagementStrategy.class, camelContext.getManagementStrategy().getClass());
    }

    @Test
    public void testShutdownTimeout() throws Exception {
        assertEquals(10, camelContext.getShutdownStrategy().getTimeout());
        assertEquals(TimeUnit.SECONDS, camelContext.getShutdownStrategy().getTimeUnit());
    }

    @Test
    public void testStopwatch() {
        StopWatch stopWatch = StopWatchTestExecutionListener.getStopWatch();

        assertNotNull(stopWatch);
        assertTrue(stopWatch.taken() < 100);
    }

    @Test
    public void testExcludedRoute() {
        assertNotNull(camelContext.getRoute("excludedRoute"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testProvidesBreakpoint() {
        assertNull(camelContext.getDebugger());
    }

    @Test
    public void testRouteCoverage() throws Exception {
        // noop
    }

}

Notice how a custom test runner is used with the @RunWith annotation to support the features of CamelTestSupport through annotations on the test class. See Spring Testing for a list of annotations you can use in your tests.

Blueprint Test

Here is the Blueprint Testing example using XML Config:

Also notice the use of getBlueprintDescriptors to indicate that by default we should look for the camelContext.xml in the package to configure the test case which looks like this:

Testing endpoints

Camel provides a number of endpoints which can make testing easier.

Name Description

DataSet

For load & soak testing this endpoint provides a way to create huge numbers of messages for sending to Components and asserting that they are consumed correctly

Mock

For testing routes and mediation rules using mocks and allowing assertions to be added to an endpoint

Test

Creates a Mock endpoint which expects to receive all the message bodies that could be polled from the given underlying endpoint

The main endpoint is the Mock endpoint which allows expectations to be added to different endpoints; you can then run your tests and assert that your expectations are met at the end.

Stubbing out physical transport technologies

If you wish to test out a route but want to avoid actually using a real physical transport (for example to unit test a transformation route rather than performing a full integration test) then the following endpoints can be useful:

Name Description

Direct

Direct invocation of the consumer from the producer so that single threaded (non-SEDA) in VM invocation is performed which can be useful to mock out physical transports

SEDA

Delivers messages asynchronously to consumers via a java.util.concurrent.BlockingQueue which is good for testing asynchronous transports

Stub

Works like SEDA but does not validate the endpoint URI, which makes stubbing much easier.

Testing existing routes

Camel provides some features to aid during testing of existing routes where you cannot or will not use Mock etc. For example you may have a production ready route which you want to test with some 3rd party API which sends messages into this route.

Name Description

NotifyBuilder

Allows you to be notified when a certain condition has occurred. For example when the route has completed 5 messages. You can build complex expressions to match your criteria when to be notified.

AdviceWith

Allows you to advice or enhance an existing route using a RouteBuilder style. For example you can add interceptors to intercept sending outgoing messages to assert those messages are as expected.
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