Comments on: Grails build-test-data Plugin Released!

By: sn

sn — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:20:55 +0000

Its a great plugin, but if you can provide some way so that build method can be used in unit tests as well, that would be Awsome.. may be you can provide a mock method that will add the method.

By: bsr

bsr — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:52:02 +0000

I came to this plugin during a custom implementation for loading seed data. Someone recommended fixtures, then I saw your comments by comparing them. Your tutorial is excellent (which was I turned away from fixtures), and thanks for the great work.. I wonder is it easy to extend (or already possible) to persist the data for initialization purpose. Currently I add the data in xml, and parse and load it part of the application.

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:18:07 +0000

@Mick – I don’t think build-test-data will be able to take care of things for you. I’d probably just make an ObjectMother class that you can pass a map of parameters to in order to override particular methods. Otherwise it hands back canned objects.

By: Mick Knutson

Mick Knutson — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:12:47 +0000

@tednaleid I basically have Value Objects that I want to centralize the creation of my Webservice request and response objects as I have sooooo many to create:

testDataConfig {
routingLookupServiceClientRequest {
‘com.comcast.ivr.das.domain.transfer.xsd.Transfer’{
//accountId= “”
ani = 6107321523 //
applicationName = “UIVR”
callDuration = “callDuration”
callEndReason = “CAE”
callFunction = “Pre_Main_Menu”
callType = “DTMF”
dtaDct = “TRANSREASON=CAE,FUNCTION=Pre_Main_Menu,UCI=NOUCIDFOUND”
language = “English”
verifiedPhoneNumber = 6107321523
//verifiedPhoneNumber = “0000000000″
}
}
}

There is no GORM in the groovy pojos I am creating.

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:40:15 +0000

@Mick Knutson – It depends on what you mean. The build methods are only added to GORM objects. If those GORM domain objects have transient POJOs on them that are bounded by GORM constraints, then they’ll be instantiated by build-test-data. It tries to call a default, no argument constructor for things that aren’t domain objects that it doesn’t know how to otherwise create.

If you’re looking to create an entire graph of objects that are strictly POJOs, build-test-data can’t do that. It uses the GORM constraints and belongsTo/hasMany constructs to understand what’s required and what the object graph looks like. Without those, it doesn’t know what values are required to instantiate valid objects.

By: Mick Knutson

Mick Knutson — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:40:10 +0000

I have several POJO Value Objects that are NOT domain objects in Grails, but I want to use them in testing. Can I still use this plugin to help create this test data?

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:06:25 +0000

@madhav test cases normally get rolled back after they’re done so the database isn’t polluted with results. If your tests run successfully, that’s really all that matters :).

If you’re just trying to generate some data to save in your database, you could do it in a “grails console” or even in your BootStrap.groovy file so it’s available when the app is actually running.

By: Madhav

Madhav — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:26:09 +0000

I installed plugin and created Functional test case. But data is not persisting in data base . I see test results are success and no error being thowing out.

Can anyone help me whats going on ….

By: tednaleid

tednaleid — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:22:37 +0000

Thanks Andrés! I’ll be interested to hear what you think of it.

By: Andrés

Andrés — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:31:51 +0000

Ted thank you for your time on developing the plugin and on answering in such a complete way all of the questions people have had.

I have been looking for something like this for quite a lot time now because creating all of the object graph for complex apps is quite boring. Im eager to try your plugin and I hope to come back and give you some feedback about my experience =) Thanks again!