WebServiceContext is null in Unit Tests

Question

I'm trying to write Unit Tests for a service which defines a webservice context thus :
@Resource protected WebServiceContext wsContext = null;
public void foo() {
      messageContext = wsContext.getMessageContext();
      List<Header> headerList = (List<Header>) messageContext.get(Header.HEADER_LIST);
}This works fine on the Server (Websphere). However, calling the same in a Unit Test fails as wsContext is null.I'm using Spring as the backbone for the entire service framework. I checked the spring configuration for this bean and nowhere does it declare a wsContext as a property setter. It seems to just work when deployed on the AppServer!
However, the same injection fails to happen while running Unit Tests. I'm trying to figure out if there is a way I can stub it out, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated!
Jim
Edited by: Titan1978 on Jul 20, 2010 6:45 AM

Answer 1

I found that I was not receiving a null on the WebServiceContext. My problem was that I was trying to use it in the class constructor, but it is not available there.
The following:
MessageContext ctxt = wsc.getMessageContext();
ServletContext req = (ServletContext) ctxt.get(ctxt.SERVLET_CONTEXT);
works fine when used in a web service method.
My second issue was with getInitParameter() method. To use getInitParameter(), the elements must by defined in the context-param section of the web.xml, not in the init-param.
Bruce.