How-to: Use the Hamcrest support project with the Spring framework

The content of the project should be configured with Spring by importing the Spring configuration file from Hamcrest support project.

Use Spring configuration file from the Hamcrest support project

The Hamcrest support project contains a Spring configuration file which can be imported into a Spring configuration file which wishes to use the classes from Hamcrest support project.

To import the beans, add an import tag which imports the file com.alpha.pineapple.hamcrest-config.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
                        http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">

        <!-- import pineapple hamcrest bean definitions. -->
        <import resource="com.alpha.pineapple.api-config.xml"/>
                                
        <!-- all remaining bean definitions. -->
                    
</beans>

Content of the com.alpha.pineapple.Hamcrest-config.xml file

Currently the com.alpha.pineapple.Hamcrest-config.xml contains the definition of these beans:

  • hamcrestMessageProvider which is an prototype instance of the message provider for internal by the objects in the Hamcrest support project.
  • asserter which is an prototype instance of the Hamcrest asserter object.