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Testing a JBatch job using Arquillian on remote WildFly


Posted on Thursday Mar 05, 2015 at 05:14PM in JBatch


I pushed entire project to https://github.com/lbtc-xxx/arquillian-jbatch .

While I prefer remote EJB way like my previous posting for JBatch testing, it works well for simple project. but little slower than remote EJB on my environment.


Using Apache BatchEE's server API with JBeret


Posted on Wednesday Mar 04, 2015 at 06:11PM in JBatch


Apache BatchEE is a fork of the JSR352 reference implementation with many additional features. it has useful REST APIs built on JAX-RS so we can manipulate (start, stop, restart, and so on) batches through REST API. fortunately, it is well modularized so we can use its REST API implementation with other JSR352 implementation such as JBeret.

curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{"entries": [ {"key": "myKey1", "value": "myValue1"}, {"key": "myKey2", "value": "myValue2"} ]}' \
     http://localhost:8080/batcheetest/jbatch/batchee/execution/start/myjob

Then you’ll see following output in WildFly console:

17:57:18,608 INFO  [stdout] (Batch Thread - 9) Hello world!
17:57:18,609 INFO  [stdout] (Batch Thread - 9) Job Parameters: {myKey2=myValue2, myKey1=myValue1}

It’s much better than create a servlet which kicks the batch.

And I haven’t tested yet, it also have useful client API for that REST API. we can use JobOperator transparently thanks to its proxy. for details of REST API and BatchEE, see following URLs:

UPDATE:

I added a test case which uses client API of BatchEE, but it doesn’t work with released version. you need to apply a patch by hand. for details refer https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BATCHEE-59

Also I created an example of a test class which uses Arquillian. this won’t work with 0.2-incubating but will work with future versions.

@RunWith(Arquillian.class)
public class MyJobArquillianIT {
    @ArquillianResource
    private URL url;
    private JobOperator jobOperator;

    @Deployment(testable = false)
    public static Archive<?> war() {
        final File[] files = Maven.configureResolver()
                .loadPomFromFile("pom.xml")
                .resolve("org.apache.batchee:batchee-jaxrs-server")
                .withTransitivity()
                .asFile();
        return ShrinkWrap.create(WebArchive.class)
                .addClass(HelloBatchlet.class)
                .addAsResource("META-INF/batch-jobs/myjob.xml")
                .addAsLibraries(files);
    }

    @Before
    public void before() {
        jobOperator = BatchEEJAXRSClientFactory.newClient(url.toExternalForm() + "jbatch");
    }

    @Test
    public void test() {
        Properties jobParameters = new Properties();
        jobParameters.setProperty("someKey", "someValue");
        final JobExecution jobExecution = waitForFinish(jobOperator.start("myjob", jobParameters));
        Assert.assertEquals(BatchStatus.COMPLETED, jobExecution.getBatchStatus());
    }

    private static final Collection<BatchStatus> BATCH_END_STATUSES
            = EnumSet.of(BatchStatus.COMPLETED, BatchStatus.FAILED, BatchStatus.STOPPED, BatchStatus.ABANDONED);

    private JobExecution waitForFinish(long executionId) {
        JobExecution jobExecution;
        while (!BATCH_END_STATUSES.contains((jobExecution = jobOperator.getJobExecution(executionId)).getBatchStatus())) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(100);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                throw new RuntimeException(e);
            }
        }
        return jobExecution;
    }
}

Web frontend

Its web-frontend GUI (batchee-servlet-embedded) works even against JBeret runtime as follows. you can view executions, jobs and its definition, and can start jobs with custom parameters.

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It also exposes simple-rest API which is more useful when issue the command by hand or some cases (e.g. cron job). in case of this example, you can start a job as follows:

$ curl 'http://localhost:8080/batcheetest/jbatch-gui/rest/start/myjob?param1=x&param2=y'
5
OK

You can read its help as follows:

$ curl 'http://localhost:8080/batcheetest/jbatch-gui/rest/'
-1
FAILURE
Unknown command:
The returned response if of MIME type text/plain and contains the following information
  {jobExecutionId} (or -1 if no executionId was detected)\n
  OK (or FAILURE)\n
  followed by command specific information

Known commands are:

* start/ - start a new batch job
  Sample: http://localhost:8080/myapp/jbatch/rest/start/myjobname?param1=x&param2=y
  BatchEE will start the job and immediately return

* status/ - query the current status
  Sample: http://localhost:8080/myapp/jbatch/rest/status/23
  will return the state of executionId 23

* stop/ - stop the job with the given executionId
  Sample: http://localhost:8080/myapp/jbatch/rest/stop/23
  will stop the job with executionId 23

* restart/ - restart the job with the given executionId
  Sample: http://localhost:8080/myapp/jbatch/rest/restart/23
  will restart the job with executionId 23