SeamTest with transactional roll back

[johnnyren]

Is it possible to configure SeamTest with automatic transactional roll back after each session bean Hibernate integration test so that I don’t have to spent time writing database data cleaning code? 

[pmuir]

Take a look at SeamTest with DBUnit

[skallio]

I have been trying to find information for the same question. Can somebody give more specific instruction what to do?

The difference in my case is that I don't have session beans but I would like to run SeamTests in transaction and rollback after each test. (I wonder if this is not what everybody wants?)

[davidmiller]

I wouldn't mind an answer to this problem as well...  The SeamTest and DBUNit docs tell me nothing....and if they do, what am I missing?

[davidmiller]

Bump bump

[javacoryd]

We have been doing this for quite some time now.  We converted our base seam test over to JUnit because we like JUnit.  You can do this with TestNG as well.  Note: this is of course using a ComponentTest.  Here is what we do:

@Before ( before the test starts )

a) Get the entityManager

b) Start the transaction

EntityTransaction transaction = entityManager.getTransaction();

if ( !transaction.isActive() ) {

     transaction.begin();

}

c) Put the tranasaction into ThreadLocal

@After ( upon test completion )

a) Get the transaction off of ThreadLocal

b) Rollback the transaction

if ( trans != null && trans.isActive() ) {

     trans.rollback();

}

c) Remove transaction from ThreadLocal

Cory.

[davidmiller]

Thanks Cory, I'll give that a go.

[javacoryd]

If you are willing to change the method you override in the ComponentTest to something else, this is easier:

public abstract class BaseTransactionalTest extends SeamTest {

    protected abstract class TransactionalComponentTest extends ComponentTest {

        protected void testComponents() throws Exception {

            Transaction.instance().begin();

            try {

                doTestComponents();

            } finally {

                Transaction.instance().rollback();

            }

        }

        protected abstract void doTestComponents() throws Exception;

    }

}