Hi, I've spent some time trying to make our read only test cases initialize the data directory just once but I think I'm stumbling into a design limitation of JUnit4.
On trunk the GeoServerAbstractTestClass has a configurable setup method that calls some extra template methods the subclasses have to provide: * getLoggingConfiguration(): to change the logs config while building/debugging a test suite, but silence them otherwise (by default a very silent log config is used) * TestData getTestData(), that builds the TestData object that sets up the data directory. We have subclasses for "mock" testing based on property fiels and geotiffs, one for tests that do use a pre-cooked data dir, and one that uses pre-cooked data dir + external dbms based datastore * getSpringContextLocations() to have a test run with a specific set of applicationContext.xml files instead of the usual one. The problem is, whatever method is marked as one time setup using @BeforeClass has to be static, so the above framework cannot work. The way Gabriel was referring to for running one time setup with junit3 uses static fields and methods too... I'm a little short on ideas, anyone with some smarts on how to deal with this limitation? The one solution I found so far is... to avoid using JUnit and use TestNG instead. TestNG has a different model for running tests and that allows the usage of non static methods for @BeforeClass initializations: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cq08296/ More information here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/331929/Beyong-JUnit-TestNG http://testng.org/doc/ Glub... any better idea? Cheers Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
