In 1.0, the reliance on JUnit was more widespread than it should have
been. It should have been isolated to the JUnit TestRule implementation,
RestDocumentation. Unfortunately, RestDocumentation was also an argument
to MockMvcRestDocumentation.documentationConfiguration which made it
impossible to use Spring REST Docs without having JUnit on the
classpath.
This commit introduces JUnitRestDocumentation and
ManualRestDocumentation. The format is a direct replacement for
RestDocumentation which has been reworked to delegate to
JUnitRestDocumentation. The latter allows manual management of the
RestDocumentationContext, primarily for use with TestNG.
A new interface, RestDocumentationContextProvider, has been introduced.
It is implemented by RestDocumentation, JUnitRestDocumentation and
ManualRestDocumentation.
MockMvcRestDocumentation.documentationConfiguration has been overridden
to also accept a RestDocumentationContextProvider. The method that
accepts a RestDocumentation has been deprecated, as has
RestDocumentation itself.
The documentation has been updated to encourage the use of
JUnitRestDocumentation and a sample illustrating the use of Spring REST
Docs with TestNG has been added.
Closes gh-171
Previously, when a request was made that used basic auth, the curl
snippet would configure the authentication header with the
Base64-encoded header. This commit updates the snippet to use the
more human-friendly -u option to provide the username and password
in place of the authentication header.
Closes gh-122
This commit splits Spring REST Docs into two projects –
spring-restdocs-core and spring-restdocs-mockmvc.
spring-restdocs-core contains the vast majority of the code but does not
depend on a specific test framework other than JUnit. The use of a
Spring Test TestExecutionListener has been replaced with a JUnit test
rule. The rule is declared once per test class and configured with
the output directory to which the generated snippets should be written.
This simplifies the implementation as thread local storage is no longer
required to transfer information about the test that’s running into
Spring REST Docs. Instead, this transfer is now handled by the new test
rule. It has also simplified the configuration as it’s no longer
necessary for users to provide a system property that configures the
output directory.
spring-restdocs-mockmvc contains code that’s specific to using Spring
REST Docs with Spring MVC Test’s MockMvc. This is currently the only
testing framework that’s supported, but it paves the way for adding
support for additional frameworks. REST Assured is one that users seem
particularly interested in (see gh-80 and gh-102).
Closes gh-107