how to customizely replace dbunit's dataset Object

Question

I am struggling to create a custom DateTime object that looks like this:

  2015-05-07 12:12:00 - > [the date is today's date but the time is custom]

I have a junit test class with dbunit's dataset, I have been able to use ReplacementDataSet's classes addReplacementObject() method to replace a placeholder like [NOW] with today's date, but i have hard time to figure out how to replace the date part of DateTime object while keeping the time. Can any body help!!!

Answer 1

I don't think dbunit can do this far. but you can use another approach. From my prespective i would rather prefer to do the insertion of customized datetime in my test class rather than puting in dbunit dataset. If your dao class has a functionality to insert the date , you can create a TimeStamp object as show below:

    DateTime dt= new DateTime();

    Timestamp timeStamp=new Timestamp(dt.withTime(12,12,0,0).getMillis())

After creating this object , you can safely uset it in your query. I hope this to be helpfull.

NB : i am using Joda Time library to create thed Date time object. it is very powerfull and currently it is the de facto standard date and time library for Java