Plugin Details

This report describes goals, parameters details, requirements and sample usage of this plugin.

Goals

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
dbunit:compare Execute DbUnit Compare operation.
dbunit:export Execute DbUnit Export operation.
dbunit:export-dtd Execute DbUnit Export DTD operation. Exports a flat DTD schema from the connected database, with tables ordered by foreign key constraints. The generated DTD can be used to validate flat XML dataset files and to enable IDE auto-completion.
dbunit:help Display help information on dbunit-maven-plugin.
Call mvn dbunit:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
dbunit:operation Execute DbUnit's Database Operation with an external dataset file.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 2.0
JDK 17

System Requirements History

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin for historical versions:

Plugin Version Maven JDK
1.3.0 2.0 8
from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 2.0 ${project.build.java.target}

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.dbunit</groupId>
          <artifactId>dbunit-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>1.3.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.dbunit</groupId>
        <artifactId>dbunit-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"