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Prior to this commit, the Spring TestContext Framework (TCF) supported the use of test-related annotations as meta-annotations for composing custom test stereotype annotations; however, attributes in custom stereotypes could not be used to override meta-annotation attributes. This commit addresses this by allowing attributes from the following annotations (when used as meta-annotations) to be overridden in custom stereotypes. - @ContextConfiguration - @ActiveProfiles - @DirtiesContext - @TransactionConfiguration - @Timed - @TestExecutionListeners This support depends on functionality provided by AnnotatedElementUtils. See the 'Notes' below for further details and ramifications. Notes: - AnnotatedElementUtils does not support overrides for the 'value' attribute of an annotation. It is therefore not possible or not feasible to support meta-annotation attribute overrides for some test-related annotations. - @ContextHierarchy, @WebAppConfiguration, @Rollback, @Repeat, and @ProfileValueSourceConfiguration define single 'value' attributes which cannot be overridden via Spring's meta-annotation attribute support. - Although @IfProfileValue has 'values' and 'name' attributes, the typical usage scenario involves the 'value' attribute which is not supported for meta-annotation attribute overrides. Furthermore, 'name' and 'values' are so generic that it is deemed unfeasible to provide meta-annotation attribute override support for these. - @BeforeTransaction and @AfterTransaction do not define any attributes that can be overridden. - Support for meta-annotation attribute overrides for @Transactional is provided indirectly via SpringTransactionAnnotationParser. Implementation Details: - MetaAnnotationUtils.AnnotationDescriptor now provides access to the AnnotationAttributes for the described annotation. - MetaAnnotationUtils.AnnotationDescriptor now provides access to the root declaring class as well as the declaring class. - ContextLoaderUtils now retrieves AnnotationAttributes from AnnotationDescriptor to look up annotation attributes for @ContextConfiguration and @ActiveProfiles. - ContextConfigurationAttributes now provides a constructor to have its attributes sourced from an instance of AnnotationAttributes. - ContextLoaderUtils.resolveContextHierarchyAttributes() now throws an IllegalStateException if no class in the class hierarchy declares @ContextHierarchy. - TransactionalTestExecutionListener now uses AnnotatedElementUtils to look up annotation attributes for @TransactionConfiguration. - Implemented missing unit tests for @Rollback resolution in TransactionalTestExecutionListener. - SpringJUnit4ClassRunner now uses AnnotatedElementUtils to look up annotation attributes for @Timed. - TestContextManager now retrieves AnnotationAttributes from AnnotationDescriptor to look up annotation attributes for @TestExecutionListeners. - DirtiesContextTestExecutionListener now uses AnnotatedElementUtils to look up annotation attributes for @DirtiesContext. Issue: SPR-11038
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