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Unitils provides utilities to further simplify unit-testing with JUnit, DBUnit, EasyMock Hibernate and Spring. The goal is to make unit-testing easy and maintainable by offering utilities such as automatic DB-schema maintainance and equality assertion through reflection.

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package org.unitils.dbunit.annotation;

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;

import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

import org.unitils.dbunit.datasetfactory.DataSetFactory;
import org.unitils.dbunit.datasetloadstrategy.DataSetLoadStrategy;

/**
 * Annotation indicating that a data set should be loaded before the test run.
 * 
 * If a class is annotated, a test data set will be loaded before the execution of each of the test methods in
 * the class. A data set file name can explicitly be specified. If no such file name is specified, first a data set
 * named 'classname'.'testmethod'.xml will be tried, if no such file exists, 'classname'.xml will be tried. If that
 * file also doesn't exist, an exception will be thrown. Filenames that start with '/' are treated absolute. Filenames
 * that do not start with '/', are relative to the current class.
 * 

 * A test method can also be annotated with DataSet in which case you specify the dataset that needs to be loaded
 * before this test method is run. Again, a file name can explicitly be specified or if not specified, the default will
 * be used: first 'classname'.'methodname'.xml and if that file does not exist 'classname'.xml.
 * 

 * Examples:
 * 

 * '    @DataSet
 *      public class MyTestClass extends UnitilsJUnit3 {
 * '
 *          public void testMethod1(){
 *          }
 * '
 * '        @DataSet("aCustomFileName.xml")
 *          public void testMethod2(){
 *          }
 *      }
 * 
 * Will load a data set file named MyTestClass.xml or MyTestClass-testMethod1.xml for testMethod1 in the same directory
 * as the class. And for testMethod2 a data set file named aCustomFileName.xml in the same directory as the class is
 * loaded.
 * 
 * 

 *      public class MyTestClass extends UnitilsJUnit3 {
 * '
 *          public void testMethod1(){
 *          }
 * '
 * '        @DataSet
 *          public void testMethod2(){
 *          }
 *      }
 * 
 * Will not load any dataset for testMethod1 (there is no class level data set). Will load a data set file named
 * MyTestClass.xml or MyTestClass.testMethod2.xml for testMethod2.
 *
 * @author Filip Neven
 * @author Tim Ducheyne
 */
@Target({TYPE, METHOD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Inherited
public @interface DataSet {


    /**
     * The file name of the data set. If left empty, the default filename will
     * be used: first 'classname'.'testMethodname'.xml will be tried, if that file does not exist,
     * 'classname'.xml is tried. If that file also does not exist, an exception is thrown.
     *
     * @return the fileName, empty for default
     */
    String[] value() default {};


    /**
     * The strategy that needs to be used to get the dbunit dataset into the database
     *
     * @return An implementation class of {@link DataSetLoadStrategy}. Use the default value {@link DataSetLoadStrategy}
     *         to make use of the default loadStragegy configured in the unitils configuration.
     */
    Class loadStrategy() default DataSetLoadStrategy.class;


    /**
     * The factory that needs to be used to read the dataset file and create a {@link org.unitils.dbunit.util.MultiSchemaDataSet}
     * object
     *
     * @return An implementation class of {@link DataSetFactory}. Use the default value {@link DataSetFactory}
     *         to make use of the default DataSetLoadStrategy configured in the unitils configuration.
     */
    Class factory() default DataSetFactory.class;
}