spring mvc - Isolated Controller Test can't instantiate Pageable

Question

I have a Spring MVC Controller which uses Pagination Support of Spring-Data:

@Controller
public class ModelController {

    private static final int DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE = 50;

    @RequestMapping(value = "/models", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public Page<Model> showModels(@PageableDefault(size = DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE) Pageable pageable, @RequestParam(
            required = false) String modelKey) {

//..
        return models;
    }

}

And I'd like to test the RequestMapping using the nice Spring MVC Test Support. In order to keep these tests fast and isolated from all the other stuff going on, I do not want to create the complete ApplicationContext:

public class ModelControllerWebTest {
    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        ModelController controller = new ModelController();
        mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(controller).build();
    }

    @Test
    public void reactsOnGetRequest() throws Exception {
        mockMvc.perform(get("/models")).andExpect(status().isOk());
    }

}

This approach works fine with other Controllers, that do not expect a Pageable, but with this one I get one of these nice long Spring stacktraces. It complains about not being able to instantiate Pageable:

org.springframework.web.util.NestedServletException: Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [org.springframework.data.domain.Pageable]: Specified class is an interface
at   
.... lots more lines

Question: How do I change my test so the magic No-Request-Parameter-To-Pageable conversion happens properly?

Note: In the actual application everything is working fine.

Answer 1

Original answer:

The problem with pageable can be solved by providing a custom argument handler. If this is set you will run in a ViewResolver Exception (loop). To avoid this you have to set a ViewResolver (an anonymous JSON ViewResolver class for example).

mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.standaloneSetup(controller)
            .setCustomArgumentResolvers(new PageableHandlerMethodArgumentResolver())
            .setViewResolvers(new ViewResolver() {
                @Override
                public View resolveViewName(String viewName, Locale locale) throws Exception {
                    return new MappingJackson2JsonView();
                }
            })
            .build();

Updated (2020): It is not necessary to add the ViewResolver anymore.

Regarding the parallel answer: It does not solve the problem for the original question to have this test running without ApplicationContext and/or friends.