How to mock Apache Camel Route before CamelContext is started in CamelSpringBootTest

Question

Maybe a rather uncommon issue, but I'd like to mock certain Camel routes, in the JUnit setup method

@BeforeEach
void setUp() {
}

before the

@Override
public void configure() throws Exception {

}

is executed, which seems to happen, as soon as the CamelContext is autowired

@Autowired
protected CamelContext camelContext;

What do I need to do, to prevent autostarting of the Camel Context, in order to be able to mock my routes in the setup method and start it manually?

Answer 1

You can enable advice with in the unit test - then you need to start Camel manually.

https://camel.apache.org/manual/advice-with.html#_enabling_advice_during_testing