I tried following tutorial on Apache Commons, but I am missing the configuration2 package. I don't have time to download this and install since I'm working on a secure network.
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/userguide/howto_properties.html
To be exact, I need the configuration2 package for the Parameters class.
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-configuration/apidocs/org/apache/commons/configuration2/builder/fluent/Parameters.html
Okay, now what?
Well, let's first use basic Java to load a Properties file and test it.
I can't remember the website where I got this code from, but it is similar to the basic Java tutorial with the exception of using a BufferedReader instead of the InputStreamReader or the like. I added this into my init() method.
private Properties properties;
@Before
public void init() {
Log.Info("Starting my test automation...");
BufferedReader reader;
try {
reader = new BufferedReader( new FileReader( "src/test/resources/simple.properties"));
properties = new Properties();
try {
properties.load(reader);
reader.close();
} catch (IOException ioEx) {
ioEx.printStackTrace();
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException fileEx) {
fileEx.printStackTrace();
throw new RuntimeException("simple.properties file not found!");
}
}
// Note, inside of my simple.properties file is:
// testword = hello
@Test
public void testPropertiesFilesLoaded() {
Assert.assertEquals(properties.get("testword"), "hello");
}
I ran this from the command line using Maven.
$ mvn -Dtest=SimpleTestAUT test -pl :app-ui
And the test passed! Yay!
Now, I need to know how to really use this properties file across my test suite. I have a Sample1AUT.java and Sample2AUT.java. In Sample1AUT.java, I have the following.
@BeforeClass
public static void setup() {
MyProperties.loadProperties("myPropertiesFileName");
}
@Test
public void testPropertiesLoaded() {
Assert.assertEquals("user", MyProperties.getProperty("biz.username"));
}
This is what my MyProperties class looks like.
public class MyProperties {
static Properties properties;
public static void loadProperties(String fileName) {
BufferedReader reader;
try {
reader = new BufferedReader( new FileReader( "src/test/resources/"+fileName+".properties"));
properties = new Properties();
try {
properties.load(reader);
reader.close();
} catch (IOException ioEx) {
ioEx.printStackTrace();
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException fileEx) {
fileEx.printStackTrace();
throw new RuntimeException(fileName+".properties file not found!");
}
}
public static String getProperty(String key) {
return (String) properties.get(key);
}
}
It worked, yay!
What I need to try next is loading Properties file via Krausening in case my "test/resources" folder is not deployed with the WAR including the Test Suite.
