How to set servlet path for every request through MockMvc

Question

Is it possible to set the servlet path for all requests (get, post, put, delete) which go through the MockMvc?

The Spring dispatch servlet is mapped to /rest/* But in my test I have to remove the /rest part in the url otherwise Spring test does not recognise the controller.

EDIT

@Sotirios:

Something is possible like:

public class MyWebTests {

    private MockMvc mockMvc;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        mockMvc = standaloneSetup(new AccountController())
            .defaultRequest(get("/")
            .contextPath("/app").servletPath("/main")
            .accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).build();

} }

But I wonder how servlet path can be set for all requests. Above code is from http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/3.2.x/spring-framework-reference/html/testing.html.

Or is it only possible to define the servletPath with the standaloneSetup?

When you set the contextPath and servletPath as part of defaultRequest while building MockMVC in the setup() method, it does indeed get applied to all requests. This works even with the webAppContextSetup and not just the standaloneSetup. — ami91, Jun 08 '16 at 02:50
@ami91 Thanks a lot for the hint, it works indeed. I wish it were more obvious though... — Pavel S., Feb 17 '21 at 11:24

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 28 '15 at 14:12

I've had problems with ServletException("Circular view path ...") which happened only in real deployment but never in our tests with MockMvc.

The problem was that a method was not annotated with @ResponseBody. The test worked fine as there was an empty servlet path so it resolved a viewName to 'servletPath/callPath' which was different from 'callPath' so it did not throw the ServletException. Hence I needed to set servletPath on test requests to get closer to how the app is deployed and get our tests to fail in case one forgets the annotation.

.defaultRequest(get("/").servletPath("/main"))

worked for me like a charm. So the answer in the question works.

How to set servlet path for every request through MockMvc

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