embedded a ldap server with spring-security using java (instead of xml) - spring-security

Question

I need to embeed a LDAP server with spring for testing purposes. The following code works:
src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
[...]
<context-param>
<param-name>contextClass</param-name>
<param-value>org.springframework.web.context.support.AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext</param-value>
</context-param>
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>
[...]
com.example.config.servlet.TestLDAPServerConfiguration
</param-value>
</context-param>
[...]
src/main/java/com/example/config/servlet/TestLDAPServerConfiguration.java
package com.example.config.servlet;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
#Configuration
#ImportResource({"/WEB-INF/test-ldap-server.xml"})
public class TestLDAPServerConfiguration {
}
src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/test-ldap-server.xml
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:s="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd">
<s:ldap-server ldif="classpath:users.ldif" root="dc=nestle,dc=com" port="33389"/>
</beans>
I do need to use AnnotationConfigWebApplicationContext instead of XmlWebApplicationContext. However, here I am using a class TestLDAPServerConfiguration which just imports a test-ldap-server.xml, and this test-ldap-server.xml just declares the ldap-server.
I'd like to remove the test-ldap-server.xml file. How can I do the equivalent of s:ldap-server with java code inside the TestLDAPServerConfiguration class? And where is this documented?

Answer 1

Try something like this;
protected static ApacheDSContainer server;
#BeforeClass
public static void startServer() throws Exception {
server = new ApacheDSContainer( "dc=yourdomain,dc=com", "classpath:test-server.ldif" );
server.setPort( 53389 );
server.afterPropertiesSet();
server.start();
}
#AfterClass
public static void stopServer() throws Exception {
if( server != null ) {
server.stop();
}
}
You can get guides from the spring-security-ldap source code.