Refined ApplicationContextInitializer assignability exception

spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/Assert.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
  * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
@@ -373,8 +373,8 @@ public abstract class Assert {
 	public static void isAssignable(Class<?> superType, Class<?> subType, String message) {
 		notNull(superType, "Type to check against must not be null");
 		if (subType == null || !superType.isAssignableFrom(subType)) {
-			throw new IllegalArgumentException((StringUtils.hasLength(message) ? message + " " : "")
-				+ subType + " is not assignable to " + superType);
+			throw new IllegalArgumentException((StringUtils.hasLength(message) ? message + " " : "") +
+					subType + " is not assignable to " + superType);
 		}
 	}
 

spring-test/src/main/java/org/springframework/test/context/support/AbstractContextLoader.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
 import org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextException;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextInitializer;
 import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.core.GenericTypeResolver;
@@ -86,8 +87,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 	 */
 	@Override
 	public void processContextConfiguration(ContextConfigurationAttributes configAttributes) {
-		String[] processedLocations = processLocations(configAttributes.getDeclaringClass(),
-			configAttributes.getLocations());
+		String[] processedLocations =
+				processLocations(configAttributes.getDeclaringClass(), configAttributes.getLocations());
 		configAttributes.setLocations(processedLocations);
 	}
 
@@ -135,7 +136,9 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
 	private void invokeApplicationContextInitializers(ConfigurableApplicationContext context,
 			MergedContextConfiguration mergedConfig) {
-		Set<Class<? extends ApplicationContextInitializer<? extends ConfigurableApplicationContext>>> initializerClasses = mergedConfig.getContextInitializerClasses();
+
+		Set<Class<? extends ApplicationContextInitializer<? extends ConfigurableApplicationContext>>> initializerClasses =
+				mergedConfig.getContextInitializerClasses();
 		if (initializerClasses.isEmpty()) {
 			// no ApplicationContextInitializers have been declared -> nothing to do
 			return;
@@ -145,13 +148,15 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 		Class<?> contextClass = context.getClass();
 
 		for (Class<? extends ApplicationContextInitializer<? extends ConfigurableApplicationContext>> initializerClass : initializerClasses) {
-			Class<?> initializerContextClass = GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArgument(initializerClass,
-				ApplicationContextInitializer.class);
-			Assert.isAssignable(initializerContextClass, contextClass, String.format(
-				"Could not add context initializer [%s] since its generic parameter [%s] "
-						+ "is not assignable from the type of application context used by this "
-						+ "context loader [%s]: ", initializerClass.getName(), initializerContextClass.getName(),
-				contextClass.getName()));
+			Class<?> initializerContextClass =
+					GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArgument(initializerClass, ApplicationContextInitializer.class);
+			if (initializerContextClass != null && !initializerContextClass.isInstance(context)) {
+				throw new ApplicationContextException(String.format(
+						"Could not apply context initializer [%s] since its generic parameter [%s] " +
+						"is not assignable from the type of application context used by this " +
+						"context loader: [%s]", initializerClass.getName(), initializerContextClass.getName(),
+						contextClass.getName()));
+			}
 			initializerInstances.add((ApplicationContextInitializer<ConfigurableApplicationContext>) BeanUtils.instantiateClass(initializerClass));
 		}
 
@@ -161,6 +166,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 		}
 	}
 
+
 	// --- ContextLoader -------------------------------------------------------
 
 	/**
@@ -171,7 +177,6 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 	 * and the configured {@linkplain #getResourceSuffixes() resource suffixes};
 	 * otherwise, the supplied {@code locations} will be
 	 * {@linkplain #modifyLocations modified} if necessary and returned.
-	 *
 	 * @param clazz the class with which the locations are associated: to be
 	 * used when generating default locations
 	 * @param locations the unmodified locations to use for loading the
@@ -186,30 +191,26 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 	 */
 	@Override
 	public final String[] processLocations(Class<?> clazz, String... locations) {
-		return (ObjectUtils.isEmpty(locations) && isGenerateDefaultLocations()) ? generateDefaultLocations(clazz)
-				: modifyLocations(clazz, locations);
+		return (ObjectUtils.isEmpty(locations) && isGenerateDefaultLocations()) ?
+				generateDefaultLocations(clazz) : modifyLocations(clazz, locations);
 	}
 
 	/**
 	 * Generate the default classpath resource locations array based on the
 	 * supplied class.
-	 *
 	 * <p>For example, if the supplied class is {@code com.example.MyTest},
 	 * the generated locations will contain a single string with a value of
 	 * {@code "classpath:com/example/MyTest<suffix>"}, where {@code <suffix>}
 	 * is the value of the first configured
 	 * {@linkplain #getResourceSuffixes() resource suffix} for which the
 	 * generated location actually exists in the classpath.
-	 *
 	 * <p>As of Spring 3.1, the implementation of this method adheres to the
 	 * contract defined in the {@link SmartContextLoader} SPI. Specifically,
 	 * this method will <em>preemptively</em> verify that the generated default
 	 * location actually exists. If it does not exist, this method will log a
 	 * warning and return an empty array.
-	 *
 	 * <p>Subclasses can override this method to implement a different
 	 * <em>default location generation</em> strategy.
-	 *
 	 * @param clazz the class for which the default locations are to be generated
 	 * @return an array of default application context resource locations
 	 * @since 2.5
@@ -224,23 +225,22 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 			String resourcePath = ClassUtils.convertClassNameToResourcePath(clazz.getName()) + suffix;
 			String prefixedResourcePath = ResourceUtils.CLASSPATH_URL_PREFIX + resourcePath;
 			ClassPathResource classPathResource = new ClassPathResource(resourcePath);
-
 			if (classPathResource.exists()) {
 				if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
 					logger.info(String.format("Detected default resource location \"%s\" for test class [%s]",
-						prefixedResourcePath, clazz.getName()));
+							prefixedResourcePath, clazz.getName()));
 				}
-				return new String[] { prefixedResourcePath };
+				return new String[] {prefixedResourcePath};
 			}
 			else if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
-				logger.debug(String.format("Did not detect default resource location for test class [%s]: "
-						+ "%s does not exist", clazz.getName(), classPathResource));
+				logger.debug(String.format("Did not detect default resource location for test class [%s]: " +
+						"%s does not exist", clazz.getName(), classPathResource));
 			}
 		}
 
 		if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
-			logger.info(String.format("Could not detect default resource locations for test class [%s]: "
-					+ "no resource found for suffixes %s.", clazz.getName(), ObjectUtils.nullSafeToString(suffixes)));
+			logger.info(String.format("Could not detect default resource locations for test class [%s]: " +
+					"no resource found for suffixes %s.", clazz.getName(), ObjectUtils.nullSafeToString(suffixes)));
 		}
 
 		return EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY;
@@ -282,36 +282,31 @@ public abstract class AbstractContextLoader implements SmartContextLoader {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Get the suffix to append to {@link ApplicationContext} resource
-	 * locations when detecting default locations.
-	 *
-	 * <p>Subclasses must provide an implementation of this method that
-	 * returns a single suffix. Alternatively subclasses may provide a
-	 * <em>no-op</em> implementation of this method and override
-	 * {@link #getResourceSuffixes()} in order to provide multiple custom
-	 * suffixes.
-	 *
-	 * @return the resource suffix; never {@code null} or empty
-	 * @since 2.5
-	 * @see #generateDefaultLocations(Class)
-	 * @see #getResourceSuffixes()
-	 */
-	protected abstract String getResourceSuffix();
-
-	/**
-	 * Get the suffixes to append to {@link ApplicationContext} resource
-	 * locations when detecting default locations.
-	 *
+	 * Get the suffixes to append to {@link ApplicationContext} resource locations
+	 * when detecting default locations.
 	 * <p>The default implementation simply wraps the value returned by
 	 * {@link #getResourceSuffix()} in a single-element array, but this
 	 * can be overridden by subclasses in order to support multiple suffixes.
-	 *
 	 * @return the resource suffixes; never {@code null} or empty
 	 * @since 4.1
 	 * @see #generateDefaultLocations(Class)
 	 */
 	protected String[] getResourceSuffixes() {
-		return new String[] { getResourceSuffix() };
+		return new String[] {getResourceSuffix()};
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Get the suffix to append to {@link ApplicationContext} resource locations
+	 * when detecting default locations.
+	 * <p>Subclasses must provide an implementation of this method that returns
+	 * a single suffix. Alternatively subclasses may provide a  <em>no-op</em>
+	 * implementation of this method and override {@link #getResourceSuffixes()}
+	 * in order to provide multiple custom suffixes.
+	 * @return the resource suffix; never {@code null} or empty
+	 * @since 2.5
+	 * @see #generateDefaultLocations(Class)
+	 * @see #getResourceSuffixes()
+	 */
+	protected abstract String getResourceSuffix();
+
 }

spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/context/ContextLoader.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -49,19 +49,18 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * Performs the actual initialization work for the root application context.
  * Called by {@link ContextLoaderListener}.
  *
- * <p>Looks for a {@link #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM "contextClass"} parameter
- * at the {@code web.xml} context-param level to specify the context
- * class type, falling back to the default of
- * {@link org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext}
+ * <p>Looks for a {@link #CONTEXT_CLASS_PARAM "contextClass"} parameter at the
+ * {@code web.xml} context-param level to specify the context class type, falling
+ * back to {@link org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext}
  * if not found. With the default ContextLoader implementation, any context class
- * specified needs to implement the ConfigurableWebApplicationContext interface.
+ * specified needs to implement the {@link ConfigurableWebApplicationContext} interface.
  *
- * <p>Processes a {@link #CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM "contextConfigLocation"}
- * context-param and passes its value to the context instance, parsing it into
- * potentially multiple file paths which can be separated by any number of
- * commas and spaces, e.g. "WEB-INF/applicationContext1.xml,
- * WEB-INF/applicationContext2.xml". Ant-style path patterns are supported as well,
- * e.g. "WEB-INF/*Context.xml,WEB-INF/spring*.xml" or "WEB-INF/&#42;&#42;/*Context.xml".
+ * <p>Processes a {@link #CONFIG_LOCATION_PARAM "contextConfigLocation"} context-param
+ * and passes its value to the context instance, parsing it into potentially multiple
+ * file paths which can be separated by any number of commas and spaces, e.g.
+ * "WEB-INF/applicationContext1.xml, WEB-INF/applicationContext2.xml".
+ * Ant-style path patterns are supported as well, e.g.
+ * "WEB-INF/*Context.xml,WEB-INF/spring*.xml" or "WEB-INF/&#42;&#42;/*Context.xml".
  * If not explicitly specified, the context implementation is supposed to use a
  * default location (with XmlWebApplicationContext: "/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml").
  *
@@ -70,10 +69,9 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * Spring's default ApplicationContext implementations. This can be leveraged
  * to deliberately override certain bean definitions via an extra XML file.
  *
- * <p>Above and beyond loading the root application context, this class
- * can optionally load or obtain and hook up a shared parent context to
- * the root application context. See the
- * {@link #loadParentContext(ServletContext)} method for more information.
+ * <p>Above and beyond loading the root application context, this class can optionally
+ * load or obtain and hook up a shared parent context to the root application context.
+ * See the {@link #loadParentContext(ServletContext)} method for more information.
  *
  * <p>As of Spring 3.1, {@code ContextLoader} supports injecting the root web
  * application context via the {@link #ContextLoader(WebApplicationContext)}
@@ -470,11 +468,11 @@ public class ContextLoader {
 		for (Class<ApplicationContextInitializer<ConfigurableApplicationContext>> initializerClass : initializerClasses) {
 			Class<?> initializerContextClass =
 					GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArgument(initializerClass, ApplicationContextInitializer.class);
-			if (initializerContextClass != null) {
-				Assert.isAssignable(initializerContextClass, wac.getClass(), String.format(
-						"Could not add context initializer [%s] since its generic parameter [%s] " +
+			if (initializerContextClass != null && !initializerContextClass.isInstance(wac)) {
+				throw new ApplicationContextException(String.format(
+						"Could not apply context initializer [%s] since its generic parameter [%s] " +
 						"is not assignable from the type of application context used by this " +
-						"context loader [%s]: ", initializerClass.getName(), initializerContextClass.getName(),
+						"context loader: [%s]", initializerClass.getName(), initializerContextClass.getName(),
 						wac.getClass().getName()));
 			}
 			this.contextInitializers.add(BeanUtils.instantiateClass(initializerClass));

spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/FrameworkServlet.java

@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ import org.springframework.core.GenericTypeResolver;
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationAwareOrderComparator;
 import org.springframework.core.env.ConfigurableEnvironment;
 import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
-import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
@@ -740,17 +739,17 @@ public abstract class FrameworkServlet extends HttpServletBean implements Applic
 			Class<?> initializerClass = ClassUtils.forName(className, wac.getClassLoader());
 			Class<?> initializerContextClass =
 					GenericTypeResolver.resolveTypeArgument(initializerClass, ApplicationContextInitializer.class);
-			if (initializerContextClass != null) {
-				Assert.isAssignable(initializerContextClass, wac.getClass(), String.format(
-						"Could not add context initializer [%s] since its generic parameter [%s] " +
+			if (initializerContextClass != null && !initializerContextClass.isInstance(wac)) {
+				throw new ApplicationContextException(String.format(
+						"Could not apply context initializer [%s] since its generic parameter [%s] " +
 						"is not assignable from the type of application context used by this " +
-						"framework servlet [%s]: ", initializerClass.getName(), initializerContextClass.getName(),
+						"framework servlet: [%s]", initializerClass.getName(), initializerContextClass.getName(),
 						wac.getClass().getName()));
 			}
 			return BeanUtils.instantiateClass(initializerClass, ApplicationContextInitializer.class);
 		}
-		catch (Exception ex) {
-			throw new IllegalArgumentException(String.format("Could not instantiate class [%s] specified " +
+		catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
+			throw new ApplicationContextException(String.format("Could not load class [%s] specified " +
 					"via 'contextInitializerClasses' init-param", className), ex);
 		}
 	}

spring-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/context/ContextLoaderTests.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2015 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ public class ContextLoaderTests {
 			listener.contextInitialized(new ServletContextEvent(sc));
 			fail("expected exception");
 		}
-		catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
+		catch (ApplicationContextException ex) {
 			assertTrue(ex.getMessage().contains("not assignable"));
 		}
 	}