Mock database driver

Question

Is there some kind of JDBC driver which simply ignores database calls?

For the development I am migrating an application to a virtual machine. Here I want to work on

Answer 1

jOOQ ships with a MockConnection that can be provided with a MockDataProvider, which is much easier to implement than the complete JDBC API. This blog post shows how to use the MockConnection: http://blog.jooq.org/2013/02/20/easy-mocking-of-your-database/

An example:

MockDataProvider provider = new MockDataProvider() {

    // Your contract is to return execution results, given a context
    // object, which contains SQL statement(s), bind values, and some
    // other context values
    @Override
    public MockResult[] execute(MockExecuteContext context) 
    throws SQLException {

        // Use ordinary jOOQ API to create an org.jooq.Result object.
        // You can also use ordinary jOOQ API to load CSV files or
        // other formats, here!
        DSLContext create = DSL.using(...);
        Result result = create.newResult(MY_TABLE);
        result.add(create.newRecord(MY_TABLE));

        // Now, return 1-many results, depending on whether this is
        // a batch/multi-result context
        return new MockResult[] {
            new MockResult(1, result)
        };
    }
};

// Put your provider into a MockConnection and use that connection
// in your application. In this case, with a jOOQ DSLContext:
Connection connection = new MockConnection(provider);
DSLContext create = DSL.using(connection, dialect);

// Done! just use regular jOOQ API. It will return the values
// that you've specified in your MockDataProvider
assertEquals(1, create.selectOne().fetch().size());

There is also the MockFileDatabase, which helps you matching dummy results with SQL strings by writing a text file like this:

# This is a sample test database for MockFileDatabase
# Its syntax is inspired from H2's test script files

# When this query is executed...
select 'A' from dual;
# ... then, return the following result
> A
> -
> A
@ rows: 1

# Just list all possible query / result combinations
select 'A', 'B' from dual;
> A B
> - -
> A B
@ rows: 1

select "TABLE1"."ID1", "TABLE1"."NAME1" from "TABLE1";
> ID1 NAME1
> --- -----
> 1   X
> 2   Y
@ rows: 2