This week I started to work on a new project using DynamoDB. As always, I’d like to write some integration tests, to verify my datastore integration works as intended. I know one cheap way to test DynamoDB, is using containers and LocalStack. However, I decided to go even simpler and give DynamoDBLocal a spin. This is just a library, for your tests to depend on. Super easy to integrate in gradle or maven projects.
Unfortunately using DynamoDBLocal is not as straightforward. Relatively soon you might hit a UnsatisfiedLinkError related to SQLLite - similar to:
To fix this in a gradle build, we modified our test task, to copy some binaries around and also make a system property available to the tests.
One last pitfall might be your IntelliJ IDE. Delete all existing test configurations and make sure to run your tests using Gradle Runner.
Unfortunately using DynamoDBLocal is not as straightforward. Relatively soon you might hit a UnsatisfiedLinkError related to SQLLite - similar to:
To fix this in a gradle build, we modified our test task, to copy some binaries around and also make a system property available to the tests.
One last pitfall might be your IntelliJ IDE. Delete all existing test configurations and make sure to run your tests using Gradle Runner.
