Spring/Hib : Simulate a database down for test purposes...

[fabrice]

Hi,

I'm using Spring/Hibernate and for test purposes, i'd like to simulate that my database is down, i don't want to modify my config Spring file because it's only few test among many others

does anybody know a Spring class which i could call in my testcase to simulate it ?

Thanks,

Fabrice

[Andreas Senft]

I do not think that there is a ready to use spring class for this purpose. However, if I'd like to simulate an unreachable database I would do the following:
1) Find out the reaction of the application if the database is really down. This would cause an exception of some kind.
2) Write a special DAO implementation which throws this exception on the operation to test.
3) Configure this DAO for my tests

Hope that helps,
Andreas