[Mifos-developer] testing mifos plugins

[Adam Monsen]

We've been struggling a bit trying to come up with a good way to test
Mifos plugins.

Jeff started on an acceptance test that will be committed, but it will
not be enabled by default since we don't currently have an automated way
to install plugins during acceptance tests.

I looked into configuring the Cargo Maven plugin to add extra jar
dependencies to the classpath, but this has the same problems as adding
Mifos plugins to $CATALINA_HOME/lib (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.finance.mifos.devel/6981/focus=7006
and http://marc.info/?t=125521906200001&r=1&w=2 ). Attached is a patch
and the stacktrace thrown on startup.

Also see: http://www.mifos.org/developers/wiki/PluginManagement

[Udai Gupta]

Hi Adam,

I think we can go ahead with this as now I have figured out the way to load plugin at runtime, see r16471

@Exception
You were getting exception when putting importers in CATALINA_HOME/lib because importers were not able to see the spi/api libs which exists in webapp/mifos/WEB-INF/lib.

This is the security feature, Classloaders are not supposed to see classes loaded by a classloader lower in hierarchy then itself.
Bootstraper Classloader (JDK JRE lib)
Catalina Classloader (CATAINA_HOME/lib)
Application Classloader (WEB-INF/lib, WEB-INF/classes)

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/class-loader-howto.html

@AcceptanceTest
Can you tell me the location, if Jeff has committed the code in.
I guess, we can load jars from any location using programmatic way.

Cheers,
Udai

[Jeff Brewster]

@AcceptanceTest
Can you tell me the location, if Jeff has committed the code in.
I guess, we can load jars from any location using programmatic way.

Udai,

I’m not sure what you’re looking for – the import transaction acceptance test?  If so, you can find it here:  /mifos-gazelle-trunk/acceptanceTests/src/test/java/org/mifos/test/acceptance/admin/ImportTransactionsTest.java.

Jeff

[Udai Gupta]

Thanks Jeff,

this is what I was looking.

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