Setting up your Matcher for use with SQLUnit

This can best be explained by use of an example. Suppose you to specify a particular Matcher, com.mycompany.sqlunit.matchers.MyMatcher to work on the first resultset, all rows, and columns 1, columns 3 to 5 and column 7, you would embed the Match element within your Diff Element as shown below. In addition, if your matcher needed some extra information, you can supply them as a set of key-value pairs using nested Arg elements within the Match element. In our example below, the Matcher looks for the variable key1 with a value value1 in order to do the matching.

<diff name="MyDiff">
  <match resultset-id="1" row-id="*" col-id="1,3-5,7"
    matcher="com.mycompany.sqlunit.matchers.MyMatcher">
    <arg name="key1" value="value1" />
  </match>
</diff>
        
        

The above example illustrates some rudimentary wildcarding features that SQLUnit supports in order to specify more than one column for a particular matching strategy. Any columns that are not covered by the wildcarded filters default to the default matching strategy, which is to check for exact equality. The rules for wildcarding are the same for the resultset-id, row-id and col-id attributes and are detailed below. SQLUnit decides which columns qualify by checking the patterns for resultset-id, row-id and col-id additively.