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testing code with a “real” Thymeleaf template engine and nothing else

In my Spring Boot project (v2.6), one of my components is using a Thymeleaf template engine to generate content.

I want to unit test my component, but I am struggling because it has a TemplateEngine as a constructor dependency :

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I don’t want to mock the TemplateEngine (the test would not have great value), I would prefer to use a “real” (and configured) templateEngine, and make sure that the content is generated as I expect. But I would like my test to be as “low-level” as possible, ie without loading the full application with Spring.

Spring Boot doesn’t have a Thymeleaf “slice” like it has for Jpa or Web tests, but I guess I need something similar to that.

How can I get the minimum Spring magic in my test, so that it’s both a realistic and fast test ?

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Answer

This is what I ended up doing :

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My object is ready to be used, with a templateEngine configured by Spring, the same way it will be when running in production. I guess we can exclude some auto configurations if needed, to go faster. But in my case I don’t have too many other dependencies available, so the test is still quite fast to run, thanks to the minimal Spring overhead.

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