[Dev] DPL idea

[Frank Cohen]

Here's an idea for the Data Production Library (DPL) idea for the TM5  
project.

The DPL is implemented in com.pushtotest.tool.dpl in Java, but you  
could also write it in a JSR 223 scripting languages

DPL Has setUp, tearDown, getData, getNextData, getDataIndex methods

DPL is Extensible To Define Custom Methods

PushToTest 5 Will Ship With DPLs for RDBMS access, CSV File access,  
and XML file access

TestScenario.xml includes global and local argument passing parameters

<data>
   <dpl name="usersdb" type="rdbms">
     <argument name="query" value="select name from users"/>
   </dpl>

   <dpl name="bodschema" type="bod">
     <argument name="object" value="com.pushtotest.schemas.bods.oagis"/>
   </dpl>
</data>

<run name="doquery" testclass="com.examples.example"
         method="sqrt" langtype="java">
       <argument name="username" dpl="usersdb" value="getNextData"/>
       <argument name="bod1" dpl="bodschema" value="getDataIndex"
          index="messagesize"/>
       <argument name="bod1" dpl="bodschema" value="getDataIndex"
          index="3"/>
</run>

What do you think?

-Frank

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