Persistence Extension & hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto

[rkilcoyne]

Hey all,

The arquillian persistence extension looks VERY promising -- we're really excited to start using it and it couldn't have come at a better time. I do have one question regarding the setup of the persistence context:

To get the persistence extension to execute the data inserts, is it necessary to set hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto to create or create-drop?

I have an existing database against which I'm running my tests, and running tests with create/create-drop is not an option.

Thanks!

Rick

[rkilcoyne]

I answered this myself -- just saw the configuration in arquillian.xml.

[dan.j.allen]

Could you post which configuration property you used to satisfy your use case?

I'm guessing that it's the initStatement and/or cleanupStatement, but I don't want to presume.

Btw, here's the PersistenceConfiguration class which shows the available properties.

[bmajsak]

Hi Rick,

indeed you don't have to this feature enabled in the persistence context. If you have some custom logic for creating schema you can use initStatement and/or cleanupStatement if you are running your tests against clean database, as Dan already pointed out.

Cheers,

Bartosz

[rkilcoyne]

Thanks for the response Gentlemen. The initial problem was that I hadn't added the following to my arquillian.xml config file:

 <extension qualifier="persistence">
    <property name="defaultDataSource">java:jboss/datasources/mmediaTestDS</property>
    <property name="userTransactionJndi">java:jboss/UserTransaction</property>
  </extension>

My latest question is whether or not I can disable the dataset cleanup step at the end of each test execution. And by cleanup I mean the table truncation that takes place each time.