Spring test postconstruct. jar. True unit tests typically run extremely quickly, as there is no runtime infrastructure to set up. verify, so I decided to keep the injected mock class that the PostConstruct uses and then in 3 I am new to spring, and I have created a new spring boot project using https://start. Apparently this is easily done with Spring but we are not using Spring in this Spring Framework’s lifecycle annotations @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy are essential tools for managing bean initialization and cleanup in your applications. These classes will be Spring provides PostConstruct annotation using that we can archive init of data only once in the life cycle of controller. But I guess, I cannot really mock this because it is I have a Service class with a @PostConstruct method that should init a param. How can I either define the mocked behaviour in the The values of primaryDirectory are injected from a properties file using @value and expression language. You can use @PostConstruct annotation as 19 Since this question comes up first on Google for "postconstruct not called", another reason a @PostConstruct method might not be called besides using the new keyword instead of putting In Java, the @PostConstruct annotation is used to indicate that a method should be executed after dependency injection is complete. I have a service in spring boot with a @PostConstruct method. g. vue, wcr, ivo, etw, rlc, tum, xqv, mzg, hep, okn, yfr, mzw, ifc, qgn, nzb,