We probably need to revisit what we really want to test and adjust the test accordingly. AFAIR, these tests felt weak anyways.

On Fri 2013-11-29 11:49, Gunnar Morling wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on support for embedded associations in CouchDB [1]. Checking > how this is mapped by the MongoDB dialect I saw its done like this (here > with an order column): > > { > "_id": "123", > "orderedChildren": [ > { > "birthorder": 0, > "orderedChildren_id": "456" > }, > { > "birthorder": 1, > "orderedChildren_id": "789" > } > ] > } > > Just looking at this document one can't tell whether "orderedChildren" > actually represents an association or an embedded collection. For our > engine that's no problem as it knows the kind of the element from its > meta-model. > > We have a testing approach though which makes assertions on the number of > associations stored in the database. With the representation described > above the number of embedded associations can't be determined on the > server-side alone (using a "view" in CouchDB terms). > > Besides from adding an attribute which describes the kind of a collection > (which wouldn't be so nice as it was just for testing purposes), I don't > see any other way than obtaining all the candidates and single out actual > associations on the client based on the meta-model. > > Maybe anyone has a better idea? > > Btw. for MongoDB the problem is ignored by having the assertion method > always return true in this case. > > --Gunnar > > [1] https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/OGM-389 > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev