Spring + JUnit + H2 + JPA : Is it possible to drop-create the database for every test?

Question

To keep the independency between the JUnit tests, I need to create the database at the beginning of every test, and destroy it at the end of every test.

The database

Answer 1

You should probably use JPA or Spring features, but just for completeness:

On the database side, H2 supports running init scripts when opening the database as follows:

jdbc:h2:mem:test;INIT=runscript from '~/create.sql'

or

jdbc:h2:mem:test;INIT=runscript from 'classpath:/com/acme/create.sql'

And when you close in-memory databases (like the example above), the data is dropped. Or you could run the SQL statement drop all objects.