spring mvc - How to inject Hibernate validator bean in Controller while unit testing?

Question

I have controller with field Validator(hibernate-validator)

public class AuthorController {

@Autowired
private Validator validator

}


@Bean
public Validator validator() {
    ValidatorFactory factory = Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory();
    return factory.getValidator();
}

All works fine, but while unit testing I have mock

@Spy
private Validator validator;

@InjectMocks
private AuthorController authorController;

and method validate() doesn't work correctly, I have always Set size = 0.

I need to test logic where I need check violation constraints. I tried to use LocalValidatorFactoryBean - doesn't work and ValidatorImpl - error because that class hasn't default constructor(but in app works fine). What implementaion Validator I need use while testing?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65927477/how-to-inject-hibernate-validator-bean-in-controller-while-unit-testing

Answer 1

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