Nrthugu

I'm trying to test a Room database in Android, written in Kotlin, locally; that is not on an emulator and without instrumented testing. As I understand it this is possible using the Roboelectric framework but I'm having some trouble with this :

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  How does one select the appropriate class for the RunWith(CLASS) decorator ?

  
  
  

  I understand AndroidJUnit4 is necessary for instrumented tests, given that this is a local test should I be using JUnit4 instead or some other derivative from RoboElectric.

  
  


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  How should I correctly determine the context ?

  
  
  

  Trying InstrumentationRegistry.getTargetContext() requires that I use InstrumentationRegistry which isn't available when testing locally or that test can not be imported when importing androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry or android.support.test.InstrumentationRegistry. Trying ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext() claims the reference getApplicationContext can't be found. I'm also not sure where I should be importing either InstrumentationRegistry or ApplicationProvider from.

  
  

In general I'm finding it tricky to determine the appropriate libraries to use in Java; all the documentation appears very version specific and assumes you magically know where to import a given class from where often such a classes appear in more then one library. Then package imported through gradle also seems to be well related but does not explicitly match the package being imported. If you have any general tips on this I would be quite keen to hear it.

My code so far is as follows:

package com.manaikan.airvendor.AirTime



import android.content.Context

import android.arch.persistence.room.Room

import androidx.test.platform.app.InstrumentationRegistry

import com.manaikan.airvendor.airtime.AirVendorDatabase

import com.manaikan.airvendor.airtime.BundleQuery

import org.junit.After

import org.junit.Before

import org.junit.Rule

import org.junit.Test

import org.junit.runner.RunWith

import org.junit.runners.JUnit4

import java.io.IOException

// Roboelectric

import androidx.test.core.app.ApplicationProvider



@RunWith(JUnit4::class)

class BundleTest {



    private lateinit var queryset : ENTITYDao

    private lateinit var database : APPLICATIONDatabase



    @Before

    fun setup()

    {

        val context = ApplicationProvider.getApplicationContext<Context>()

        database = Room.inMemoryDatabaseBuilder(context, APPLICATIONDatabase::class.java)

            .allowMainThreadQueries()

            .build()

        queryset = database.bundleQuery()

    }



    @After

    @Throws(IOException::class)

    fun tearDown()

    {

        database.close()

    }



    @Test

    @Throws(Exception::class)

    fun review()

    {

    }

}