GWTP Spring dispatch and GWTTestCase - No bean named 'HttpRequestHandlerServlet'

[Piotr B]

Hi folks,

I am having trouble with testing access to gwtp dispatcher configured in Spring environment.

I posted a question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18913991/gwt-spring-dispatch-and-gwttestcase-no-bean-named-httprequesthandlerservlet

but it seems that no one has encountered this problem so far.

Here's the details:

I am trying to create a simple integration test using GWTTestCase. I am aware of other strategies for doing that (Selenium, etc.). However, I have reasons to run GWTTestCase tests as well so this is still important to me ;)

Main application works fine in both web and dev mode. However when I run my GWTTestCase I get this:

2013-09-20 11:28:28,044 DEBUG [org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnection] thread:[JS executor for com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient@af69121] Sending request: POST /com.media.frontend.MediaFrontendJUnit.JUnit/dispatch/GetClip HTTP/1.1

...

[WARN] /com.media.frontend.MediaFrontendJUnit.JUnit/dispatch/GetClip org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet-1696289432' is defined at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:549) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getMergedLocalBeanDefinition(AbstractBeanFactory.java:1096) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:278) at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:198) at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBean(AbstractApplicationContext.java:1121) at org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet.init(HttpRequestHandlerServlet.java:57) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:212) ...

These are excerpts from my configs/Java:

src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml

!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
    <listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

<!-- Java-based annotation-driven Spring container definition -->
<context-param>
    <param-name>contextClass</param-name>
    <param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
</context-param>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>dispatch</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatch</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/dispatch/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

No servlet entries are present in MediaFrontend.gwt.xml - Main application gwt module configuration

MediaFrontendJUnit.gwt.xml:

<module>
<!-- Inherit our applications main module.                      -->
    <inherits name='com.media.frontend.MediaFrontend'/>

    <source path="client" />
    <source path="gwt" />

    <servlet path="/dispatch/*" class="org.springframework.web.context.support.HttpRequestHandlerServlet"/>

</module>

I was able to find a solution by myself which is absolutely not acceptable because it puts Test-related configuration in my production environment: it works fine when I add this mapping to my src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml:

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatch</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/com.media.frontend.MediaFrontendJUnit.JUnit/dispatch/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

I've been really struggling with this for a long time and still have no idea why it happens. I'm really looking to any suggestions and help from you. Thanks!