Package com.axway.ats.harness.testng.dataproviders

Class ExcelDataProvider

java.lang.Object

com.axway.ats.harness.testng.dataproviders.BasicDataProvider

com.axway.ats.harness.testng.dataproviders.ExcelDataProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

IDataProvider

public class ExcelDataProvider
extends BasicDataProvider
implements IDataProvider

Provides test data, by reading it from an excel spreadsheet. This implementation uses the ExcelParser to parse the data from the spreadsheet.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ExcelDataProvider()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Object[][]	fetchDataBlock(Method m)	Returns a set of test data, depending on the Method that requires it.

Methods inherited from class com.axway.ats.harness.testng.dataproviders.BasicDataProvider

getDataFileInputStream, getDataSheet

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ExcelDataProvider

public ExcelDataProvider()

Method Detail

fetchDataBlock

public Object[][] fetchDataBlock(Method m)
                          throws DataProviderException,
                                 NoSuchPropertyException,
                                 ConfigurationException

Returns a set of test data, depending on the Method that requires it. This specific implementation searches for the excel spread sheet in the same directory structure, that the calling method's class is in (i.e. com/axway/some_package/tests).

Specified by:

fetchDataBlock in interface IDataProvider

Parameters:

m - the Method that requires the test data

Returns:

a two dimensional array of Object elements

Throws:

ConfigurationException

NoSuchPropertyException

DataProviderException

See Also:

IDataProvider.fetchDataBlock(java.lang.reflect.Method)