@AutoConfigureMockMvc shouldn't default to printing interactions by default

Printing the output every interaction with the preconfigured MockMvc instances is not a good idea as it pollutes the output in test runs significantly, even if the test succeeds so that logs in CI runs get polluted by all that unnecessary output.

I can certainly see the appeal to default to print when developing test cases, but test cases are hopefully executed way more often in scenarios where nobody is even looking at the output (on the command line, in CI environments).

Of course the default can be tweaked easily bit it feels like there’ll be quite a lot of occasions where @WebMvcTest is used in combination with @AutoConfigureMockMvc(alwaysPrint = false) which sort of indicates that that would’ve been the better default.

[philwebb]

You can now disable printing for all tests by adding an application.properties in src/test/resources containing:

spring.test.mockmvc.print=none

[odrotbohm]

In know, I know. The thing is, that this then still pollutes the output and the stuff I might actually really want to see. I simply think that writing to Standard.out behind a user’s back has never been a good idea in the first place.