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The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.0.0.Alpha3 release of the Arquillian Persistence Extension component!

Some of the highlights in this release

Support for JSON. If you prefer this well known format over YAML/EXCEL/XML, you can now define your data sets in JSON too!

{
    "useraccount":
    [
        {
            "id" : 1,
            "firstname" : "John",
            "lastname" : "Smith",
            "username" : "doovde",
            "password" : "password"
        },
        {
            "id" : 2,
            "firstname" : "Clark",
            "lastname" : "Kent",
            "username" : "superman",
            "password" : "kryptonite"
        }
    ]
}

Introduced ability to seed database using plain SQL scripts.

@Test
@UsingScript("users.sql")
@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 – Apache POI exclusion. If you are not using excel based data sets you can exclude
Apache POI archive in arquillian.xml file. This will reduce deployment size quite significantly.

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

Fixed WAR and EAR packaging.

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Release details

Component	Arquillian Persistence Extension
Version	1.0.0.Alpha3 view tag
Release date	2011-12-30
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 6

Enhancement

• ARQ-693 - Custom SQL statements / scripts to be run before and after test execution

Feature Request

• ARQ-694 - Seeding database using SQL scripts
• ARQ-695 - Investigate possibility of excluding Apache POI library
• ARQ-711 - Add support for JSON data sets

Bug

• ARQ-685 - Failing to locate datasets when deploying as WAR archive.

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