Replace ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor in integration tests

Question

So, I've got a spring application that uses the @Scheduled annotation to do various jobs. In prod, it works great. However this feature causes us some problems when running spock integration tests-as soon as the container starts up, all our tasks are fired and it mucks up our test runs.

I'm looking for a way to turn off the scheduling functionality, but still have the container (configured with @ComponentScan) pick it up as a regular 'ol bean.

Based on some legwork I've done so far, it seems that if I could override the built-in ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor with a no-op implementation I could achieve this goal..but when I create this bean in the container(created using the @Bean("scheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor"-see the code section below), it just seems to be added to the list of BeanPostProcessors-which still contains the original implementation.

   @Bean(name="scheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor")
    ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor  scheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor(){
        return new ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor(){
            @Override
            public Object postProcessAfterInitialization(final Object bean, String beanName){
                return bean
            }
        }


    }

So, I guess my question is-how can I wire in a bean that will replace a built-in BeanPostProcessor? FYI I'm using Spring 3.2.4 and the application is configured 100% via Spring annotations.

thanks.

Answer 1

My mistake was that I didn't name the bean correctly. I ended up finding where this bean was being built(in org.springframework.scheduling.annotation.SchedulingConfiguration) and I copied it's configuration.

This method demonstrates the proper names/config:

@Bean(name=AnnotationConfigUtils.SCHEDULED_ANNOTATION_PROCESSOR_BEAN_NAME)
@Role(BeanDefinition.ROLE_INFRASTRUCTURE)
BeanPostProcessor scheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor(){
    return new  BeanPostProcessor(){
        @Override
        Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException {
            return bean
        }

        @Override
        Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) throws BeansException {
            return bean
        }
    }
}