Unit test for Spring boot Hibernate JPA based DAOs - spring

Question

I am trying to write unit tests for my Spring Boot based application that uses Hibernate/JPA entities & DAOs. Here are the steps I’ve followed so far:
1) Added following to pom.xml
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
<artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
2) In ../test/resources/application.properties, I’ve added this:
spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto = create-drop
spring.jpa.database = HSQL
spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect
spring.datasource.driverClassName = org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver
spring.datasource.url: jdbc:hsqldb:mem:scratchdb
spring.datasource.username = sa
spring.datasource.password =
3) In ../test/resources/import.sql I’ve added a few ‘insert into…’, data creation scripts.
insert into groups(GROUP_NAME, THREAD_POOL_SIZE) values ("TEST GROUP 1", 5);
4) The unit test looks like this:
#RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
#SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = Application.class)
public class TestGroupDao {
#Autowired
GroupDao groupDao;
#Test
public void testFindByName() {
Group group = groupDao.findByName("TEST GROUP 1");
//assertThat(group.getPoolSize(), is(equalTo(5)));
}
}
When I run this Test, I get error messages such as:
org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport : HHH000389: Unsuccessful: alter table..
org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport : HHH000389: user lacks privilege or object not found: PUBLIC.GROUP
5) Group Entity:
#Entity
#javax.persistence.Table(name = "groups", uniqueConstraints = {
#UniqueConstraint(columnNames = "GROUP_NAME"),
})
public class Group {
// ==============
// PRIVATE FIELDS
// ==============
// An autogenerated id (unique for each group in the db)
#Id
#GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
#Column(name = "GROUP_ID", unique = true, nullable = false)
private long id;
#Column(name = "GROUP_NAME", unique = true, nullable = false)
private String name;
What am I missing?

Answer 1

DilTeam, I found that your last comment was very important!
Spring does not allow to use schema.sql (without platform siffix) with ddl-auto=create-drop propertie value.
This part is described here 74.3 Initialize a database using Spring JDBC:
If you want to use the schema.sql initialization in a JPA app (with
Hibernate) then ddl-auto=create-drop will lead to errors if Hibernate
tries to create the same tables. To avoid those errors set ddl-auto
explicitly to "" (preferable) or "none". Whether or not you use
ddl-auto=create-drop you can always use data.sql to initialize new
data.