Which is the recommended alternative to Persistence Extension when running local acceptance tests against a prepackaged EAR?

[alfonso.mateos]

Hello everybody,

It seems that Arquillian Persistence Extension is only working for in-container tests. Which is the best alternative to persistence extension when using local tests (i.e. from outside of the container) that lets me get a functionality equivalent to @CreateSchema and @UsingDataSet, etc.?

My intention is to use this data loading in an acceptance test. Ideally:

- Deploying the entire EAR. I already know how to do this.

- Testing it from outside of the container, by using the resteasy framework.

Thanks in advance.

[aslak]

for the very simple cases the recommended solution would be to rely on the jpa providers built in 'import sql' features.

e.g. with Hibernate add a file named import.sql to the classpath of your deployment. Hibernate will then pick up the file and execute the sql statements during deploy. Not sexy like Persistence Extension, but it work..

This is something we should attempt to support via the Persistence Extension in the future, but the Persistence Extension is currently blocked by how Arquillian Core handles the execution in a @Deployment.testable=false/@RunAsClient scenario.