Unit testing XQJGenerator

My first unit tests would only work if I had an xmldb up and running. That was not really convenient. So I looked around for a XQJ implementation that I could use from my unit tests. Saxon9-HE came to the rescue.

I added following dependency to my pom.xml after installing the jar in my local maven repo




test-application-context.xml:


xquery for unit-test: splitting a sentence into words



xquery for unit-test: retrieving all ASF members from pom.xml


unit-test: transform a plain string of words into xml output


unit-test: return the names of all ASF-members of pom.xml

Using XQJ API with Cocoon3

As my research pointed out XMLDB was a bit painfull to use as most xmldb implementations had quite specific API's to accomplish the same result. I instead turned my focus to the newer XQJ API which offers a JDBC alike approach to using XQuery.

Today I wrote a first draft version of an XQJGenerator accompanied from 2 basic unit tests. Although you have to be carefull that not all XQueries can be ported from XMLDB API to XQJ i managed to get the results extracted the way I wanted to.

XQJGenerator.java


XQJGeneratorTest.java


xquery1.xquery


demoboards1.xquery


test-application-context.xml


xquery1.xquery output


demoboards1.xquery output