So, I ended up creating a mock BeanFactoryPostProcessor (in the test/java area) that does the same thing..

@Component
public class MockRequestBeanFactoryPostProcessor implements BeanFactoryPostProcessor{

public void postProcessBeanFactory(
ConfigurableListableBeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException {
System.out.println(“Setting up a mock request for unit testing..”);
beanFactory.registerScope(“request”, new RequestScope());
MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
ServletRequestAttributes attributes = new ServletRequestAttributes(request);
RequestContextHolder.setRequestAttributes(attributes);
}

}

@Before
public void setup() {
ConfigurableBeanFactory configurableBeanFactory = (ConfigurableBeanFactory) applicationContext.getAutowireCapableBeanFactory();
configurableBeanFactory.registerScope(“session”, new SessionScope());
configurableBeanFactory.registerScope(“request”, new RequestScope());
MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
ServletRequestAttributes attributes = new ServletRequestAttributes(request);
RequestContextHolder.setRequestAttributes(attributes);
}

Be sure not to autowire your controller. Just use applicationContext.getBean() in the setup or in your test method.

I tried initialising them like so:
ConfigurableApplicationContext context = getContext(null);
ServletRequestAttributes attributes = new ServletRequestAttributes(request);

However, it didn’t solve my problem, so I kept looking and found this post in mail-archives.apache.org: http://bit.ly/bO5HdU

It says I needed to define my bean in both ApplicationContext and faces-config.

Still don’t understand it, but I have green bar and need to move on..

Rob

http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.0.0.RC1/javadoc-api/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.html#getBeanFactory%28%29
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/api/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.html#getBeanFactory%28%29
http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/2.0.x/api/org/springframework/context/support/AbstractApplicationContext.html#getBeanFactory%28%29