Can't get tests to pass on Gitlab CI - activejdbc

Question

I've been trying to get our tests to pass on our Gitlab CI, but can't. I'm using the stock pipelines config that comes with Gitlab. All I've had to do is provide the gitlab yaml file to config the CI.
This is what we're using
image: maven:3.5.0-jdk-8-alpine
services:
- postgres:latest
variables:
POSTGRES_DB: my_test_db
POSTGRES_USER: my_test_user
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ""
MAVEN_OPTS: "-Dmaven.repo.local=.m2/repository -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.log.org.apache.maven.cli.transfer.Slf4jMavenTransferListener=WARN -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.showDateTime=true -Djava.awt.headless=true"
MAVEN_CLI_OPTS: "--batch-mode --errors --fail-at-end --show-version -DinstallAtEnd=true -DdeployAtEnd=true"
ACTIVE_ENV: test
connect:
image: postgres
script:
# official way to provide password to psql: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/libpq-envars.html
- export PGPASSWORD=$POSTGRES_PASSWORD
- psql -h "postgres" -U "$POSTGRES_USER" -d "$POSTGRES_DB" -c "SELECT 'OK' AS status;"
stages:
- test
test:
stage: test
script:
- "mvn -Denvironments=test -B db-migrator:migrate; mvn -Denvironments=test -DACTIVE_ENV=test -B test"
Everything works perfectly up to the point where the tests run. Then they all error out with similar messages:
383 [main] WARN org.javalite.activeweb.DBSpecHelper - no DB connections are configured, none opened
456 [main] WARN org.javalite.activeweb.DBSpecHelper - no DB connections are configured, none opened
Tests run: 2, Failures: 0, Errors: 2, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.528 sec <<< FAILURE! - in app.models.RoleTest
validatePresenceOfUsers(app.models.RoleTest) Time elapsed: 0.071 sec <<< ERROR!
org.javalite.activejdbc.DBException: Failed to retrieve metadata from DB, connection: 'default' is not available
I have one database.properties file that is checked in and is for tests only (our dev and prod envs use jndi). It looks like so:
test.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
test.username=my_test_user
test.password=
test.url=jdbc:postgresql://postgres/edv_test
Again, migrations run using all this exact same config. I just can't figure out why the tests won't run. I understand why it's saying there's no default db, but I don't get why it's not seeing the test settings and configuring that connection as expected.

Answer 1

So you know, the Maven flag environments like this: mvn test -Denvironments=test only works for the DB-Migrator, and not for the tests. Any JavaLite application in a standard running mode or as a test, it will be looking at ACTIVE_ENV. If this is not set, it will assume development. In test mode, it will be looking at database.properties block development.test.xxx=yyy as in http://javalite.io/database_configuration#property-file-configuration.
Think of it as "development" environment, "test" mode.
Additionally, DbConfig is not involved in tests, as database connections in test have a special treatment (rollback transactions), see: http://javalite.io/testing_with_db_connection