mysqldump xml format and dbunit expected xml format in phpunit test in php

Question

I am working in phpunit testing with dbunit. This is my first time testing in php.

I am creating xml by this command:

mysqldump --xml -t -u username -p database > seed.xml 

After that as per doc xml should be in below format:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<dataset>
    <guestbook id="1" content="Hello buddy!" user="joe" created="2010-04-24 17:15:23" />
    <guestbook id="2" content="I like it!" created="2010-04-26 12:14:20" />
</dataset>

But in my generated xml it looks like:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
<mysqldump xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<database name="demo_app">
    <table_data name="test">
    <row>
        <field name="id">1</field>
    </row>
    </table_data>
    <table_data name="test2">
    <row>
        <field name="id">1</field>
        <field name="name">asdas</field>
    </row>
    <row>
        <field name="id">2</field>
        <field name="name">asDASD</field>
    </row>
    </table_data>
</database>
</mysqldump>

When I am trying to run this in my test class:

$this->createMySQLXMLDataSet('seed.xml');

I get this error:

PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_Exception: The root element of a flat xml data set file must be called

I am using phpunit 4.1.0 and dbunit 1.3

How can I generate xml in the expected format or how can I get rid of this issue?

Answer 1

The format from the documentation that you reference is for a Flat XML Dataset, which is not what is expected when using createMySQLXMLDataSet() .

From your error, though, it seems as if you were actually calling createFlatXmlDataSet() by mistake.

You should reference the file you generated with mysqldump in a createMySQLXMLDataSet() call.