Introduce AopTestUtils in spring-test [SPR-13005]

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Sam Brannen opened SPR-13005 and commented

Status Quo

AopProxyUtils provides for determining the ultimate target class for a proxied object via ultimateTargetClass(Object); however, there is currently no first-class support for determining the ultimate target object behind a proxy of set of nested proxies.

In testing scenarios it is sometimes necessary to obtain a reference to the underlying target object -- for example, to configure expectations on a mocked bean that was proxied by Spring.

Deliverables

1. Introduce support in the spring-test module for retrieving the ultimate target object behind a proxy.

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Issue Links:

• Document AopTestUtils in the reference manual [SPR-13006] #17598 Document AopTestUtils in the reference manual ("is depended on by")

Referenced from: commits cf51f0c, efe3a35

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Sam Brannen commented

Completed as described in GitHub commit efe3a35:

Introduce AOP testing utilities

This commit introduces support in the spring-test module for obtaining a reference to the underlying target object hidden behind one or more proxies.

Specifically this commit introduces AopTestUtils with two methods:

• getTargetObject(Object)
• getUltimateTargetObject(Object)