From: Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com&gt; To: cdi-dev <cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt; Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 10:58 AM Subject: [cdi-dev] Fwd: [weld-dev] @Alternative VS multiproject Moving to cdi-dev. Begin forwarded message: > From: Geoffrey De Smet <ge0ffrey.spam(a)gmail.com&gt; > Subject: [weld-dev] @Alternative VS multiproject > Date: 6 December 2011 15:16:07 GMT > To: weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > One promise of @Alternative beans is to make it easier to mock out > things during testing. > In practice there are some problems to make that a reality. > > For example, suppose we have this: > > - foo-database-layer.jar > -- org/.../ProductionDatabaseSetup.class > --- Description: connects to the database on localhost (which is only > there on production). > -- org/.../TestDatabaseSetup.class > --- @Alternative > --- extends ProductionDatabaseSetup > --- Description: connects to an in-memory database and inserts testdata > in it. > - CustomerDAO > -- @Inject DatabaseSetup databaseSetup; > -- META-INF/beans.xml > --- Filled with other stuff > > - foo-server.war > -- WEB-INF/lib/foo-database-layer.jar > -- WEB-INF/beans.xml > --- Filled with other stuff > > > Now, during the integrations tests of foo-server.war, we want to > replace ProductionDatabaseSetup with TestDatabaseSetup. > > How? > 1) Add a WEB-INF/beans-test.xml (just like logback-test.xml and logback.xml) > => Does not work. It's ignored. > > 2) Change WEB-INF/beans.xml for the tests only. > Duplicate everything from the original. > Add declaration: <alternative>...TestDatabaseSetup</alternative> > => Does not work. CustomerDAO still gets ProductionDatabaseSetup instead > of TestDatabaseSetup. > > 3) Change WEB-INF/lib/foo-database-layer.jar!META-INF/beans.xml for the > tests only. > Duplicate everything from the original. > Add declaration: <alternative>...TestDatabaseSetup</alternative> > => Lots of code and tests are slow because of all the zipping and unzipping. > > -- > With kind regards, > Geoffrey De Smet > > > _______________________________________________ > weld-dev mailing list > weld-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/weld-dev _______________________________________________ cdi-dev mailing list cdi-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/cdi-dev