I’m new to DBfit, and to Fitnesse, so bear with me here… How can I make DbFit use a connection which I supply? I want Spring to configure and supply a “dataSource”, and let DbFit use it to setup and rollback data. The dbfit pdf implies this can be done, but I don’t see how, unless it means creating my own implementation of the DBEnvironment, and giving that to the DbEnvironmentFactory.

In the DbFit pdf, it states, “In standalone mode, the connection properties are stored in the public DefaultEnvironment singleton field inside dbfit.DbEnvironmentFactory. You can initialise it from your own fixtures if you want to pass an existing database connection (to make sure that your .NET tests are using the same transaction ” as DbFit fixtures).”

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help!

Because I needed something like that, I’ve already added this in my AS400Environment:

/**
* Connects to the database using a file from the classpath.
*
* @param filePath The path to the properties file, starting from a location in the classpath.
*
* @throws SQLException if connecting fails.
* @throws IOException if something went wrong while parsing the properties file.
*/
public void connectUsingClasspathFile(final String filePath)
throws SQLException, IOException {
DbConnectionProperties dbp = DbConnectionProperties.CreateFromString(getLinesFromClasspathFile(filePath));
if (dbp.FullConnectionString != null) {
connect(dbp.FullConnectionString);
} else if (dbp.DbName != null) {
connect(dbp.Service, dbp.Username, dbp.Password, dbp.DbName);
} else {
connect(dbp.Service, dbp.Username, dbp.Password);
}
}

/**
* Gets a list of lines from the properties file located in the classpath at the given location.
*
* @param filePath The path to the properties file, starting from a location in the classpath.
* @return A list of lines from the properties file, to be used by
* {@link DbConnectionProperties#CreateFromString(List)}
*
* @throws IOException if something went wrong while parsing the properties file.
*/
private List getLinesFromClasspathFile(final String filePath) throws IOException {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(filePath)));
List lines = new ArrayList();
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
lines.add(line);
}
return lines;
}

You can probably move getLinesFromClasspathFile() to DbConnectionProperties.

Thank you.

There’s a handy setSystemUnderTest() method in DoFixture which allows practically to hand over the flow to another fixture. Now I can’t use it anymore…