Hi,
just one quick question/hint.
You are aware of the Pax Exam Testframework?
I think with it you are able to do what you are looking for.
regards, Achim
2014-12-12 6:41 GMT+01:00 Dean Schulze <dean.w.schu...@gmail.com>:
>
> I have an OSGI app consisting of several bundles. In order to do
> functional testing I want to dynamically load test case classes when the
> -Dtest.class.name=MyTestClass property is set. I want to keep the test
> classes in their own bundle to make it easy to exclude them from the
> production binary. The only test artifact that will be in the
> production code bundles will be an interface that the test classes
> implement.
>
> The test bundle depends on the production bundles to access the test
> interface and because the test classes also use other classes in the
> production bundles. The test classes themselves are POJOs. They are
> not Serice or Component classes. I only want to load them when the
> test.class.name property is set so I don't want Felix injecting them.
>
> I try to load the test class
>
> public class MyTestClass implements MyTestClassI {
> ....
> }
>
> from the production bundle code like this
>
> MyTestClassI myTestClass;
>
> ....
>
> // Inside the @Activate method
> String testClassName = System.getProperty("test.class.name");
> if (testClassName != null) {
>
> Class c = Class.forName(testClassName);
> myTestClass = c.newInstance();
> }
>
> This gives a ClassNotFoundException.
>
> The recommended solution that I've seen to this problem is to use the
> Bundle.loadClass() method, but I haven't seen any example code that
> actually does this. I would have to get the test Bundle first and I
> haven't been able to find out how to do this.
>
> If anyone knows of example code to do dynamic class loading in Felix I
> would appreciate a link to it. If this kind of dynamic loading can only
> be done form the gogo shell I could live with that since this would only
> be done by the development and test teams.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dean
>
>
>
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