Arquillian example with JPA and Graphene not working

[johnsky]

Hello,

I am having trouble to use this example:

https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-examples/tree/master/arquillian-jpa-drone

It is an easy example showing a login and it is tested by drone/graphene.

Also I found a discussion that actually the combination of both is not supported:

https://community.jboss.org/message/754960#754960

From there it leads to an issue in Jira: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-1077

It is confusing that there is oficial code available to try the two aspects and on the other hand it says it is not possible to combine it.

1) Would you be so kind and tell me if there is a posibility?

I executed the example I fouhnd on github and ran into the attached error. Environment: Mac Snow Leopard 64bit, Eclipse Juno, Firefox 19 (it's all said in the log)

Only I added the path to my JBoss 7.1.1 Server in the arquillian file.

Firefox opens up, but then nothing else happens until the out of connection error after 45 sec. I tried different combinations of selenium and firefox, because it happened before that they don't work well together.

2) is there a running version of this code?

Any help is appreciated

Thanks in advance

Best,

Johannes

[johnsky]

Already 34 persons read this post... please... just a comment like: yes you can, no you never can, you can, but have to wait until the Czech-Developers do the next release ;-)

[johnsky]

Hi,

could anybody please give it a try?

A solution could be that I only use Graphene for functional tests and the peristence and business components are already deployed in the container, right?

Thanks in advance

[lfryc]

Hey Johanes,

from a linked issue it seems it should be possible implement this using mixed mode:

https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/ARQ/Test+run+modes#Testrunmodes-Mixedmode

You have two options here:

• use Arquillian Persistence Extension (APE) extension to setup/tear-down the database
• handle the above manually

It also seems like the linked sample [1] doesn't actually use Arquillian Persistence Extension.

When using APE, the crucial thing here is that:

• Arquillian manages the deployment (you use @Deployment which has (testable=true)
• you use @InSequence and you setup the database in first step and reset it on the end
• you use Graphene in @RunAsClient test method

It would be interesting to connect those two, however generally I would not recommend to use Graphene for testing database layer.

You can use in-container testing to do so (testing on a level of JPA, CDI, EJB).

Even though, it would be interesting to use Graphene for full-scale testing, where APE roll changes to the database back.

[1]  https://github.com/arquillian/arquillian-examples/blob/master/arquillian-jpa-drone/src/test/java/org/arquillian/example/JPAWebDriverTest.java

[johnsky]

Hi Lukáš, thanks a lot for your help!