YAML based Model Definition

In situations where you don't want to add jEntityTest annotations to your models, or you don't have access to modify the models due to an external library used - you can define the models in yaml. Below is an example model defined (refer to the inline comments for explanations):

# entity class described by the model
entity: org.testmonkeys.jentitytest.test.integration.yaml.test.Person

# list of properties defined in the model
properties:
  id:
    # list of abort conditions to be applied to the property
    abortConditions:
      - strategy: IgnoreComparisonIfExpectedNull
  name:
    # list of validators to be applied to the property
    validators:
        # Strategy name (either short name or full class name)
      - strategy: ValidateRegex
        # strategy parameters definition
        parameters:
          regExp: ^[0-9A-Za-z!@.,;:'"?-]{1,10}\z

    # comparison strategy that will be used for this property
    comparisonStrategy:
      strategy: StringComparison
      parameters:
        caseSensitive: false
        trim: true
  createdAt:
    comparisonStrategy:
      strategy: DateTimeComparison
      parameters:
        delta: 1
        unit: MINUTES
  employmentRecord:
    comparisonStrategy:
      strategy: ChildEntityComparison
  knownAddresses:
    comparisonStrategy:
      strategy: ChildEntityListComparison

To load the model - use the following snippet as an example:

InputStream inputStream = this.getClass()
                .getClassLoader()
                .getResourceAsStream("yamlComparisonModels/person.yaml");
        
EntityComparatorContext.getInstance().defineComparisonModel(inputStream);
        
inputStream.close();