JPQLQueryTestHelper.java

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package org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.tests.jpql;

import org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.jpql.tools.spi.IManagedTypeProvider;

/**
 * This helper is responsible to create and initialize the ORM Configuration and the Persistence
 * Configuration required to execute the unit-tests.
 *
 * @version 2.4
 * @since 2.3
 * @author Pascal Filion
 */
public interface JPQLQueryTestHelper {

    /**
     * Retrieves the external form of the ORM configuration with the given name.
     *
     * @param ormXmlFileName The name of the orm.xml
     * @return The external form of the ORM configuration.
     * @throws Exception If an error was encountered during the creation of the ORM configuration
     */
    IORMConfiguration getORMConfiguration(String ormXmlFileName) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Returns the persistence unit that manages some entities.
     *
     * @return The external form of a persistence unit that will be used to retrieve the entities
     * used for testing
     * @throws Exception If an error was encountered during the creation of the persistence unit
     */
    IManagedTypeProvider getPersistenceUnit() throws Exception;

    /**
     * Notifies this helper before a test is invoked.
     *
     * @throws Exception If an error was encountered during the initialization
     */
    void setUp() throws Exception;

    /**
     * Notifies this helper before the tests are invoked, which is before the entire test suite is invoked.
     *
     * @throws Exception If an error was encountered during the initialization
     */
    void setUpBefore() throws Exception;

    /**
     * Notifies this helper after a test was invoked.
     *
     * @throws Exception If an error was encountered during execution
     */
    void tearDown() throws Exception;

    /**
     * Notifies this helper after the entire suite of tests have been invoked, which is done after
     * the very last test that was invoked.
     *
     * @throws Exception If an error was encountered during execution
     */
    void tearDownAfter() throws Exception;
}