Apache Camel End2End test

Question

I try to write an end to end test for my Apache Camel process that goes through a pipeline consisting of many routes. But I have got stuck on the very first one.

My route definition looks like following

@Override
public void config() {
 rest("/admin/k2/employee")
 .post()
 .routeId(ROUTE_BUILDER_ID)
 .to(SEDA + K2EmployeesRouteBuilder.ROUTE_BUILDER_ID);
}

In my unit test i mock everything ad to the testing in isolation.

Buit for my e2e test I want to perform a REAL http post call to the /admin/k2/employee endpoint.

The trouble is that my application contains 50+ RouteBuilders and hundreds of other Components not related with my route under test.

If I try to use

@CamelSpringBootTest
@SpringBootTest

the entire SpringBoot context is loaded with all those 50+ routes that need to be fully configured or mocked - otherwise the context fail to load and the test fails.

I can load only my RouteBuilder (+ eventualy related dependencies) using

@SpringBootTest( classes= { ... })

This works fine for my integration tests where i call direct endpoint to start the test.

But for my e2e test the problem is that the embeded Tomcat server does not start and I cannot do the real http request.

If I add Application.java to the classes then all the routes try to load into context again.

So the question is: Is it possible to run a route(s) with a rest producer together with embeded Tomcat server but in isolation without the rest of the application?

• Steve Huston: Are the routes in separate packages such that you can load only one (or small number of) packages, leaving out all except the one route you want to test?
• JirMed: Yes, in general I keep one RouteBulider with related classes per package