The dbUnit format I'm thinking of is their FlatXmlDataSet;
http://dbunit.sourceforge.net/components.html
But it's not as similar as I thought, but their description still could provide
a starting point. (I much prefer their XmlDataSet format.)
Re-reading their documentation made me wonder, can you specify nulls with
ddlUtils' data file format?
Rusty Wright wrote:
Thanks; I didn't see that.
1) I still think it would be nice if the format could be documented on
the ddlutils web site, obviously in a non-specific way but also with a
specific simple example. It seems to me that it's very similar to
DbUnit's non-verbose format so you could use their explanation as a
starting point.
2) The documentation for writeDtdToFile says "This sub task does not
require a database connection, so the dataSource sub element of the
enclosing task can be omitted." which is incorrect, it does require a
connection, and, to split hairs over terminology, it should say
"database sub element" instead "dataSource sub element" since the xml
tag it's referring to is <database> and not <dataSource>.
Thanks again.
Thomas Dudziak wrote:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Rusty Wright <[email protected]>
wrote:
No, sorry, that doesn't help. I looked again on the torque site and
can't
find the documentation for the data load file.
The two urls you gave are for the database schema; I'm asking about
the data
file where you load data into the database using the writeDataToDatabase
tag, after it's created the tables.
I managed to figure it out by searching the mailing list archives,
but it
seems quite odd to me that it's apparently completely undocumented.
The format for the data file is not fixed, it depends on the schema.
There is an Ant task that will generate a data file DTD for a
particular schema:
http://db.apache.org/ddlutils/ant/org.apache.ddlutils.task.WriteDtdToFileCommand.html
Tom
