Using Cargo how to make Glassfish create tables without modifying the original EAR

Question

How do you make Cargo maven plugin create tables on an embedded database using the Glassfish container. without modifying the original EAR?

If it was using asadmin, the --createtables=true can be added to create the tables on deployment.

At the moment I am creating the database as follows:

<cargo.datasource.datasource.derby>
cargo.datasource.driver=org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver|
cargo.datasource.url=jdbc:derby:derbyDB;create=true|
cargo.datasource.jndi=jdbc/__default|
cargo.datasource.username=APP|
cargo.datasource.password=nonemptypassword
</cargo.datasource.datasource.derby>

The database is created successfully, but there are no tables (as expected) in it yet. I need to tell the persistence provider to create the tables.

Answer 1

From looking at the doDeploy it does not appear to allow passing additional parameters.

I have actually fixed it on the CARGO source code. https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/CARGO-1245

So when the fix gets released, the following can be done to create the tables and drop them.

<cargo.glassfish.deploy.arg.1>--createtables=true</cargo.glassfish.deploy.arg.1>
<cargo.glassfish.undeploy.arg.1>--droptables=true</cargo.glassfish.undeploy.arg.1>