Question

How can set the object type of a property in a pom file?

I’m working with DBUnit to do DB exports and I’m trying to pass in the table parameter

        <configuration>
          <format>xml</format>
          <dest>target/dbunit/export.xml</dest>
          <tables>ACTIVITY_TYPE</tables>
        </configuration>

The tables attribute is supposed to have a type of ‘Table[]’ and running maven I get

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:dbunit-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-3:
export (default) on project CCSEWMS-db-export: Unable to parse configuration of
mojo org.codehaus.mojo:dbunit-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-3:export for parameter tables: Cannot assign configuration entry ‘tables’ with value ‘ACTIVITY_TYPE’ of type
java.lang.String to property of type org.dbunit.ant.Table[] -> [Help 1]

So how can I convert my Strings into a Table[]?

Answer 1

Turns out, this is how you specify the way to do it.

    <configuration>
      <driver>${driver}</driver>
      <url>${url}</url>
      <username>${username}</username>
      <password>${password}</password>
      <format>flat</format> 
      <tables>
        <list>
          <name>USER_SDO_MAPS</name>
        </list>
      </tables>
    </configuration>