Sam Brannen
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Spring Framework 4.0 introduced first-class support for a Groovy-based DSL for defining the beans for an ApplicationContext. However, prior to this commit, the Spring TestContext Framework (TCF) did not provide any out-of-the-box support for using Groovy scripts as path-based resource locations when loading an application context for tests. This commit addresses this issue by introducing first-class support for using Groovy scripts to load the ApplicationContext for integration tests managed by the TCF. Specifically, the following changes have been made in the TCF to support Groovy scripts. - Introduced getResourceSuffixes() in AbstractContextLoader in order to support multiple resource suffixes in the default detection process. This feature is used by the new Groovy/Xml context loaders. - Introduced GenericGroovyXmlContextLoader and GenericGroovyXmlWebContextLoader which support both Groovy scripts and XML config files for loading bean definitions. Furthermore, these loaders support "-context.xml" and "Context.groovy" as resource suffixes when detecting defaults. Note that a default XML config file will be detected before a default Groovy script. - DelegatingSmartContextLoader and WebDelegatingSmartContextLoader now use reflection to choose between using GenericGroovyXmlContextLoader and GenericGroovyXmlWebContextLoader vs. GenericXmlContextLoader and GenericXmlWebContextLoader as their XML loaders, depending on whether Groovy is present in the classpath. - Groovy scripts can be configured via the 'locations' or 'value' attributes of @ContextConfiguration and can be mixed seamlessly with XML config files. Issue: SPR-11233
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