Question

I am running JUnit tests using in memory HSQLDB. Let’s say I have a method that inserts some values to the DB and I am checking if the method inserted the values correctly. Note that order of the insertion is not important.

@Test
public void should_insert_correctly() {
    MyEntity[] expectedEntities = new MyEntity[2];
    // init expected entities

    Inserter out = new Inserter(session); // out: object under test
    out.insert();

    List list = session.createCriteria(MyEntity.class).list();

    assertTrue(list.contains(expectedEntities[0]));
    assertTrue(list.contains(expectedEntities[1]));
}

The problem is I cannot compare expected entities to actual ones because the expected’s id and the actual’s id are different. Since setId() of MyEntity is private (to prevent setting id explicitly), I cannot set all of the entities’ id to 0 and compare like that.

How can I compare two result set regardless of their ids?

Answer 1

I found this more practical. Instead of fetching all results at once, I am fetching results according to the criterias and asserting they are not null.

public void should_insert_correctly() {
    Inserter out = new Inserter(session); // out: object under test
    out.insert();

    Criteria criteria;

    criteria = getCriteria(session, 0);
    assertNotNull(criteria.uniqueResult());

    criteria = getCriteria(session, 1);
    assertNotNull(criteria.uniqueResult());
}

private Criteria getCriteria(Session session, int i) {
    Criteria criteria = session.createCriteria(MyEntity.class);
    criteria.add(Restrictions.eq("x", expectedX[i]));
    criteria.add(Restrictions.eq("y", expectedY[i]));
    return criteria;
}