Integration and Interoperability Facilities Framework: Client Libraries Management Model

Testing of client libraries

Unit Testing using My-Container

When

When needing to exercise the functional features of a CL against the targeted service, the most convenient way to do it is through in-container testing, using my-container. My-container can be used as a convenience for running the tests through Maven or in Eclipse against a small distribution and for simple interactions, not requiring contacting the outside world.

How

To test your CL calls to the targeted web service through my container you need to add the relevant dependencies to its POM, declaring their scope as test. Assuming our web service is marked by the artifact id 'sample-service-multi-core' the declarations areL

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.gcube.tools</groupId>
    <artifactId>my-container</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.gcube.samples</groupId>
    <artifactId>sample-service-multi-core</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <type>gar</type>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Then you need to instruct Maven to install my-container and to deploy the service GAR in my-container for the service to be up and running. In the POM of the CL, instruct Maven to take it and place it in src/test/resources before the tests are ran:

<build>
<plugins>
	<plugin>
		<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
		<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
		<version>2.3</version>
		<executions>
			<execution>
				<id>install-service</id>
				<phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
				<goals>
					<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
				</goals>
				<configuration>
					<includeArtifactIds>sample-service-multi-core</includeArtifactIds>
					<overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
					<includeTypes>gar</includeTypes>
					<excludeTransitive>true</excludeTransitive>
					<outputDirectory>src/test/resources</outputDirectory>
					<stripVersion>true</stripVersion>
				</configuration>
			</execution>		
			<execution>
				<id>install-my-container</id>
				<phase>generate-test-resources</phase>
				<configuration>
					<artifactItems>
						<artifactItem>
							<groupId>org.gcube.tools</groupId>
							<artifactId>my-container</artifactId>
							<version>1.0.0</version>
							<type>tar.gz</type>
							<classifier>distro</classifier>
							<overWrite>false</overWrite>
							<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}</outputDirectory>
						</artifactItem>
					</artifactItems>
					<markersDirectory>${project.basedir}</markersDirectory>
				</configuration>
				<goals>
					<goal>unpack</goal>
				</goals>
			</execution>
		</executions>
	</plugin>
 
</plugins>
</build>