is it possible to skip the arquillian lifecycle programatically?

[abendt]

Hi all,

we often use arquillian in client mode (@Deployment(testable = false)). While working on a test, it's often helpful, to run the test against an already deployed application.

This does not seem to be possible with arquillian. Right now we are commenting out the @RunWith temporarily. This is not a good solution because sometimes then a commented out @RunWith is checked in which causes the tests to fail on jenkins etc.

I would like to be able to define a configuration (e.g. sysproperty in my IDE). if this is set and picked up by arquillian container startup and/or deployment is skipped by arquillian.

is this somehow possible?

best regards,

   Alphonse Bendt

[kpiwko]

Well, it is not possible out of the box. You have two possibilities I can think of from the top of my head:

You set deployment mode to manual, and you deploy manually:

@Deployment(name = "X", managed = false, testable = false)
public static WebArchive manualDeployment() {
    return ShrinkWrap.create(WebArchive.class)....
}

@ArquillianResource Deployer deployer;

@Test @InSequence(1)
public void shouldBeAbleToDeploy() {

   if(deploy is enabled by system property) {
    deployer.deploy("X");

  }
}

@Test @InSequence(2) @OperateOnDeployment("X")
public void shouldNowBeInDeploymentX() {
    // we're now inside X
}

Note, you should also handle @ArquillianResource URL somehow.

Or, you write an extension that will modify Deployment Scenarios.

Karel

[abendt]

Hi Karel,

thanks a lot for your reply.

I did not try out setting the deployment mode to manual because i'm more interested in skipping the whole container lifecycle.

Here's what i did:

i wrote an extension of jboss-as-arquillian-container-managed that installs a NoOpContainer if a specific system property is set:

{code}
public class NoOpContainerExtension implements LoadableExtension {
    @Override
    public void register(ExtensionBuilder builder) {
        boolean skipContainerLifecycle = Boolean.parseBoolean(System.getProperty("arquillian.skipContainerLifecycle", "false"));
        if (skipContainerLifecycle) {
            builder.service(DeployableContainer.class, NoOpContainer.class);
        } else {
            new ManagedContainerExtension().register(builder);
        }
    }
}
{code}

In my IDE i set this variable to true to skip the arquillian lifecycle. Running the tests with Maven starts the container as usual.

For reference you can find the code here: https://github.com/abendt/jboss-as-arquillian-container-noop

best Regards,

   Alphonse Bendt