In a previous post I got some help from Tim Ducheyne to work out a way to use a spring wired DataSource with Unitils. He mentioned a better way was coming…
Sometime back now they added the support for TestListener which solves this issue.
I don’t work with conventional databases much now, but was intrigued to see this post explaining how to extend unitils and use TestListeners to test ldap. Neat eh!
Extending Unitils to test LDap.
Unitils provides its own DataSource. This causes problems if you want to use Spring IOC to inject your own. There is a way around this but its not elegant. In future versions of unitils I believe the team is going to provide better support for less intrusive methods. This post documents a way to use your own spring defined DataSource.
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Yes its great but the product could do with some polish, better documentation, bug fixing and some api revision. Despite that its still the best system I have looked at to test a DAO. Also the project is alive and kicking, it looks like there is more to come in future revisions.
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I wanted to explore unit testing JPA DAO and models. Hand crafting solutions is quite time consuming. I found something called Unitils which refines another project Dbunit. In theory it should significantly reduce the complexity and save some time. So one Saturday, I sat down to explore the space and write this blog.