grails.util.GrailsWebMockUtils should be a testFixture

[matrei]

Expected Behavior

I should be able to use GrailsWebMockUtil.bindMockWebRequest() in a test without explicitly adding org.springframework:spring-test to the testCompileClasspath.

Actual Behaviour

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest

This is because org.springframework:spring-test is a compileOnly dependency on grails-web-common so it is not available for consumers, which is correct as we don't want a dependency on org.springframework:spring-test in consumers production dependencies.

This is what the Gradle java-test-fixtures plugin solves. It allows you to separate testFixtures from ordinary classes so you can consume them without getting them in the production classpaths.

Another alternative is to extract GrailsWebMockUtil to a separate project.

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