[android-developers] Re: Android unit testing with ContentProviders and databases

The best solution is probably a RenamingDelegatingContext, that will
allow your tests to use a different database than your 'live' one.
There are examples of RenamingDelegatingContext and other mock
injections in Android Application Testing Guide [http://
www.packtpub.com/android-application-testing-guide/book].

On Dec 31 2011, 2:20 am, Stephan Wiesner <testexpe...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> I guess you gave the obvious answer yourself: Don't hardcode the name.
> Use a variable, maybe a system setting or something from a config file
> that can be accessed by all your apps and put an if/else block in your
> provider....
>
> Greetings from Berne,
> Stephan
>
> On 31 Dez., 01:05, barry <barry.drinkwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have an app that uses a ContentProvider to serve data instead of
> > directly accessing the database. The application is working as
> > expected but I have a problem with unit tests: how can I force the
> > ContentProvider to use a test database rather than a 'live' one? If I
> > wasn't using a ContentProvider I could pass a different database name
> > to the Constructor of my `SQLiteOpenHelper` sublass, but now the
> > database is created with a call to onCreate() in my ContentProvider:
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> >         @Override
> >         public boolean onCreate()
> >         {
> >                 UKMPGDataProvider.init(getContext(), Constants.DATABASE_NAME);
> >                 return (UKMPGDataProvider.getWritableDatabase() == null) ? false :
> > true;
> >         }
>
> > As you can see, the database name is hardcoded.
>
> > Is there a way to pass a test name into the ContentProvider?

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