测试Spring REST API。如何在JUnit测试中使用子对象保存实体？

我有两节课：课程和课程。课程是与课程的@OneToMany关系。使用Spring Boot，我创建了一个简单的REST API来管理类。我已经用邮递员手动测试了API，看起来一切正常。

接下来，我编写了简单的JUnite来自动测试API。测试完成后，“课程”实体已正确保存在数据库中，但“课程”抛出错误：

2014-10-15 20：19：15.162错误5812 --- [nio-8080-exec-2] sdrwAbstractRepositoryRestController：无法读取JSON：模板不能为null或为空！（通过参考链：com.mbury.elearning.domain.Lesson [“ course”]）；嵌套的异常是com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException：模板不能为null或为空！（通过参考链：com.mbury.elearning.domain.Lesson [“ course”]）

看起来@OneToMany关系没有正确映射，但我不知道该如何处理。有谁知道如何使用包含子对象的实体配置Spring REST以使其正常工作？

波纹管我已经附上了我所有的代码：

LessonTest.java

package com.mbury.elearning;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo;
import static org.springframework.test.util.MatcherAssertionErrors.assertThat;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.boot.test.IntegrationTest;
import org.springframework.boot.test.SpringApplicationConfiguration;
import org.springframework.boot.test.TestRestTemplate;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;
import org.springframework.test.context.web.WebAppConfiguration;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;

import com.mbury.elearning.domain.Course;
import com.mbury.elearning.domain.Lesson;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Application.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@IntegrationTest
public class LessonTest {

    final String BASE_URL_COURSE = "http://localhost:8080/courses/";
    final String BASE_URL_LESSON = "http://localhost:8080/lessons/";

    @Test
    public void shouldCreateNewLesson() {

        final String COURSE_TITLE = "test";
        final String COURSE_DESCRIPTION = "test";
        final String LESSON_TOPIC = "test";

        Course course = new Course();
        course.setTitle(COURSE_TITLE);
        course.setDescription(COURSE_DESCRIPTION);

        Lesson lesson = new Lesson();
        lesson.setTopic(LESSON_TOPIC);
        lesson.setCourse(course);
        RestTemplate rest = new TestRestTemplate();

        ResponseEntity<Course> response = rest.postForEntity(BASE_URL_COURSE, course,
                Course.class);
        assertThat(response.getStatusCode(), equalTo(HttpStatus.CREATED));


        ResponseEntity<Lesson> response1 = rest.postForEntity(BASE_URL_LESSON, lesson,
                Lesson.class);
        assertThat(response1.getStatusCode(), equalTo(HttpStatus.CREATED));
    }

}

Course.java

package com.mbury.elearning.domain;

import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "course")
public class Course  {

    @Column(name = "description")
    private String description;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    @Column(name = "id")
    private Integer id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy = "course")
    private List<Lesson> lesson;

    @Column(name = "title")
    private String title;

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

    public Integer getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public List<Lesson> getLesson() {
        return lesson;
    }

    public String getTitle() {
        return title;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }

    public void setId(Integer id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public void setLesson(List<Lesson> lesson) {
        this.lesson = lesson;
    }

    public void setTitle(String title) {
        this.title = title;
    }
}

Lesson.java

package com.mbury.elearning.domain;

import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "lesson")
public class Lesson {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    @Column(name = "id")
    private int id;

    @Column(name = "topic")
    private String topic;

    @ManyToOne(optional = false)
    @JoinColumn(name = "ID_COURSE")
    Course course;

    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getTopic() {
        return topic;
    }

    public void setTopic(String topic) {
        this.topic = topic;
    }

    public Course getCourse() {
        return course;
    }

    public void setCourse(Course course) {
        this.course = course;
    }
}

CourseRepository.java

package com.mbury.elearning.repository;

import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import org.springframework.data.rest.core.annotation.RepositoryRestResource;

import com.mbury.elearning.domain.Course;

@RepositoryRestResource
public interface CourseRepository extends CrudRepository<Course, Integer> {

}

LessonRepository .java

package com.mbury.elearning.repository;

import org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository;
import org.springframework.data.rest.core.annotation.RepositoryRestResource;

import com.mbury.elearning.domain.Lesson;

@RepositoryRestResource
public interface LessonRepository extends CrudRepository<Lesson, Integer> {

}

应用程序.java

package com.mbury.elearning;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Import;
import org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.config.EnableJpaRepositories;
import org.springframework.data.rest.webmvc.config.RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration;

@Configuration
@ComponentScan
@EnableJpaRepositories
@Import(RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration.class)
@EnableAutoConfiguration
public class Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
    }
}