Problems with @SpringBootTest: Context does not load and Spock cannot @Autowire

Question

I just switched to Spring Boot 1.4.0 to use the new test features. However, I seem to be unable to use them with the Spock Framework. Consider the following Spec:

@SpringBootTest(classes=[MainWebApplication.class], webEnvironment =SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
class RestTemplateExampleSpec extends Specification{

@Autowired
private TestRestTemplate restTemplate

def "Web application is Reachable and Status is 200 - OK"(){

    when: "The root address is called"
    def response = restTemplate.getForObject("/", String.class)

    then: "The status code is 200 - OK"
    response.statusCode == HttpStatus.OK

}

def "Endpoint /admin/users is available"(){

    when: "/admin/users is called"
    def response = restTemplate.getForEntity("/admin/users", String.class)

    then: "The status code is 200 - OK"
    response.statusCode == HttpStatus.OK

    }

}

The problem is that the annotation cannot even find MainWebApplication.class(sits on the package above in the hierarchy), and therefore there is no context, so nothing is needed Autowire. I understand that this is fairly new material, but the documentation is not very good so far, so this question will probably also help others.

Answer 1

Spock Spring Boot 1.4 @SpringBootTest, Spock 1.1, .

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