Why is ContextConfiguration location different in idea and eclipse

Question

Hello experts. In my team we work both in Eclipse and Idea. That works pretty good, except for one minor issue that I can't figure out how to solve. When setting the ContextConfiguration location in our tests and running them inside Eclipse everything works like a charm:

@Test(groups = { "database" })
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {" file:src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml" })

But in my Idea env I get "could not find applicationContext" error. I need to set the location like this(project name is services):

@Test(groups = { "database" })
@ContextConfiguration(locations = {" file:services/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml" })

The project structure is like this: parent.pom with two child poms: services.pom and other.pom. When running the test in the terminal from the service project like this:

mvn -Dtest=com.mytest.service.somepackage.TheTest test 

there are no issues. I guess that since my project structure is parent-with-two-children the need of /service is necessary(The project is created by pointing out the parent pom). Is there a way to fix this? Could you please help me with a solution. thx

Answer 1

You use a path relative to the current working directory. Eclipse and Idea use different directories. Try to use a classpath location:

@ContextConfiguration(locations = {" classpath:/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml" })

But I'm not sure about your classpath configuration. Typically the src/main/webapp will be copied to a target webapp directory. May be you need to configure it to contain the target webapp dir.