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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.0.0.Alpha2 release of the Arquillian Persistence Extension component!

Some of the highlights in this release

Renamed @Data and @Expected annotation to more meaningful @UsingDataSet and @ShouldMatchDataSet.

datasets folder is now a default location for all data set files. Files specified in @UsingDataSet and @ShouldMatchDataSet will be first lookup in this directory. If not found search will be performed starting from root folder.

@Test
@UsingDataSet("users.yml")
@ShouldMatchDataSet("expected-users.yml")
public void shouldChangeUserPassword() throws Exception {
   // given
   String expectedPassword = "LexLuthor";
   UserAccount user = em.find(UserAccount.class, 2L);

   // when
   user.setPassword("LexLuthor");
   em.merge(user);

   // then
   assertThat(user.getPassword()).isEqualTo(expectedPassword);
}

New feature of dumping database state during test execution has been added. Following phases are covered:

• Before seed (before test execution).

• After seed (before test execution).

• Ater test.

• After clean.

This can be configured in arquillian.xml as follows:

<extension qualifier="persistence">
	<property name="dumpData">true</property>
</extension>

@Transactional support can be now used standalone either on class or test method level.

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Release details

Component	Arquillian Persistence Extension
Version	1.0.0.Alpha2 view tag
Release date	2011-12-03
Released by	Aslak Knutsen
Compiled against	Arquillian Core – 1.0.0.CR6

Published artifacts org.jboss.arquillian.extension

• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-persistence-api jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-persistence-impl jar javadoc pom
• org.jboss.arquillian.extension » arquillian-persistence-integration-tests jar javadoc pom

Release notes and resolved issues 8

API review

Enhancement

• ARQ-680 - Separate DBUnit DatabaseConnection creation in dedicated event.
• ARQ-681 - Rename dataset annotations
• ARQ-682 - Introduce convention for datasets files lookup from datasets folder first.

Feature Request

• ARQ-653 - Add Persistence configuration to Archive instead of client callback
• ARQ-654 - Change Persistence TransactionStarted event to StartTransaction

Bug

• ARQ-662 - Error when running a test that is not related to persistence extension
• ARQ-663 - @Expected annotation giving false positives due to improper usage of DBUnit assertions

Thanks to the following list of contributors: Bartosz Majsak, Aslak Knutsen