I would like to be create (or hopefully find) a nice framework for unit testing my mapping documents. Basically, I want to be able to say something like "assert that the 'name' property in the 'Person' class is mapped to the 'NAME' column in the 'PERSON' table." I would like to use the hibernate metadata to find out where the properties are to be persisted so that I can do this sort of check. Any tips? Thanks

James

Hibernate version: 3.2.2.ga

Take a look at the book "POJOs in Action" by Chris Richardson. He provides a JUnit extension called ormunit which lets you test your mappings and even validate them against the database schema.

sgabal,

Thanks for the reply. I actually got the idea for the code I need from PIA (great book). I didn't see how to specifically check which column the property was mapped to, though.

We did find a way to do it. We got the configuration object we used to construct the SessionFactory and we asked for the PersistentClass we wanted. From there, you can ask for the specific Property object you're interested in. It has an iterator of the columns to which it is mapped. That's what we're going to use, I think.

James

I'm glad that you liked my book.

BTW You could have used assertField() to test whether a field was mapped. However, the version in the book didn't support mapping properties - not a fan of that so I never implemented.

Coincidentally, I am just in the middle of turning ORMUnit into an open-source project: cleaning up the code, implementing support for property mapping, writing some docs etc. I hope to be done in the next few days and will post an announcement to my blog.

Chris

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