Support JUnit-style composed annotations for Quarkus test-related annotations

[knutwannheden]

JUnit has the concept of composed annotations and meta-annotations which allows defining custom annotations and declaring JUnit annotations (e.g. @ExtendWith) on these custom annotations. When a test class is annotated with the custom annotation it will behave as if it were annotated directly with the JUnit annotation.

I think it would be very useful if this would also be supported by QuarkusTestExtension for some of the annotations it uses (e.g. @QuarkusTestResource and @TestProfile).

[famod]

I was just thinking that it would be nice if a TestProfile class could be annotated with @QuarkusTestResource but I guess this ticket contains a more thorough approach...?

/cc @geoand

Edit: Would be redundant to #10368, though.

[geoand]

Yeah, we probably need to think of this more. But I doubt I will be doing that for 1.7, because I'll be taking some time off soon.

[geoand]

If someone wants to take a stab at this, I'd be willing to review. Otherwise it's pretty low in my queue of things to do :(

[kucharzyk]

@geoand Any news about this ticket?

I would like to achieve something like this:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD})
@TestSecurity(user = "alice", attributes = {
        @SecurityAttribute(key = "name", value = "Alice"),
        @SecurityAttribute(key = "avatar_url", value = "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/95208?v=4"),
        @SecurityAttribute(key = "email", value = ""),
        @SecurityAttribute(key = "login", value = "alice"),
        @SecurityAttribute(key = "external_id", value = "95208"),
})
public @interface TestAsAlice {
}

I would be really awesome if I could extract all fields into one place and use meta annotation instead.

[geoand]

@kucharzyk thanks for bringing this up, I had totally forgot about it!

#29970 takes care of the security related annotations.

[geoand]

A question for all the folks here: What other test annotations should support this feature?

[kucharzyk]

What do you think @geoand about supporting something like @stereotype annotation in Quarkus?

https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/enterprise/inject/Stereotype.html

it might be a standard way of solving all problems like this one