Backup embedded database (H2)

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I am creating a web app using Spring-boot and Jpa. Everything is working fine. But during testing I have to manually create the obejct instances and populate the database for each test. I was wondering if I can backup the embedded db and restore it at the beginning of each test, freeing up the clutter in my test code.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 23 '15 at 05:56

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H2 allows you to create a SQL script using script to. Then you can run a SQL script when opening a connection by appending init=... to the database URL.

answered Oct 23 '15 at 05:56

Thomas Mueller

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:33

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The best (and easiest way) is to use Spring embedded database + SQL scripts to preload your database. A simple way to do this is described in this answer.

A very good article showing the population per test (and the whole setup) is: Setup and preload database for spring integration/functional tests

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answered Oct 23 '15 at 06:10

derkoe

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 23 '15 at 10:37

Spring Boot has several mechanisms for initialising a database, the simplest one is arguably via Spring JDBC. All you need to do is to create a file called data-test.sql(assuming your your test profile is named "test") and define all the data via plain SQL inserts in there.

Backup embedded database (H2)

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