Question

How can I import a mysql database dump file (contains insert and create table statements) programmatically through a java program. I need this as the setup phase of a unit test.

Unfortunately this doesn’t work:

Connection conn = dbConnectionSource.getConnection();
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
stmt.execute(FileUtils.readFileToString(new File("./some-sql-file")));
conn.close();

Thanks,
-A

PS – In Rails, I used fixtures for filling a test database. I made rails rails create the underlying tables through setting the environment to test, anything similar in Java.

Answer 1

You could start a new process from java and execute this command if you have access to the mysql executable wherever you are running the import. Something like this:

Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process pr = rt.exec("mysql -p -h ServerName DbName < dump.sql");