Interface Loader

src/main/java/org/easetech/easytest/loader/Loader.java:23–93

An interface for different types of loader. This would ultimately be used by the users of EasyTest as well to provide their custom Loaders. Currently, EasyTest supports three Loaders internally : ExcelDataLoader - To load data from XLS files XMLDataLoader - To load dat

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public interface Loader {
    /**
     * The key identifying the actual output result that needs to be written to the file.
     */
    String ACTUAL_RESULT = "ActualResult";
    
    /**
     * The key identifying the expected output that needs to be compared with actual result
     */
    String EXPECTED_RESULT = "ExpectedResult";
    
    /**
     * Constant for empty string
     */
    String EMPTY_STRING = " ";
    
    /**
     * Double Quote String
     */
    String DOUBLE_QUOTE = "\"";
    
    /**
     * Single Quote
     */
    String SINGLE_QUOTE = "'";
    
    /**
     * The ampersand sign
     */
    String AMPERSAND = "&";
    
    /**
     * Comma
     */
    String COMMA = ",";
    /**
     * The key identifying the Test Status either PASSED/FAILED 
     * determined after comparing expected and actual results, and written to the file.
     */
    String TEST_STATUS = "TestStatus";
    
    /**
     * The key identifying the Test Duration in milli seconds
     */
    String DURATION = "Duration(ms)";
    
    /**
     * The constants for test status PASSED/FAILED 
     */    
    final String TEST_PASSED = "PASSED";
    final String TEST_FAILED = "FAILED";
    
    /**
     * Method responsible to Load the test data from the {@link Resource} instance passed as parameter
     * @param resource from which to load the data
     * @return a Map consisting of the methodName as key and a List of Key/value pairs as the value of the Map.
     * This is currently not a user friendly way of exposing the test data. 
     */