Google AppEngine JUnit tests that use JDO persistence

Google AppEngine has a very clear article on setting up local unit tests. It even says how to setup Datastore tests. What it doesn't say explicitly is that this means JDO will auto-magically work too. Naive idiots (self) therefore assume there is some magic incantation that makes it work. Or that it just doesn't work, but that doesn't really seem likely. To further confuse us, the internets abound with complex solutions for getting a PersistenceManager at test-time. Ignore all the noise; it is as simple as setting up the Datastore and just using JDO as normal. In more detail:

1. As per Google instructions, make sure appengine-testing.jar, appengine-api-labs.jar, and appengine-api-stubs.jar are on your classpath
2. Setup a datastore for testing, again just as in Googles instructions
3. Run your test using a PersistenceManager just as you would normally (assuming you have a PMF setup as per Google's example)
   

   import com.google.appengine.tools.development.testing.LocalDatastoreServiceTestConfig;
   import com.google.appengine.tools.development.testing.LocalServiceTestHelper;
   public class MyTestClass {
       private final LocalServiceTestHelper helper =
           new LocalServiceTestHelper(new LocalDatastoreServiceTestConfig());
   
       @Before
       public void setUp() {
           helper.setUp();        
       }
   
       @After
       public void tearDown() {
           helper.tearDown();
       }
   
    @Test
    public void simpleJdo() {
     MyObject t = new MyObject("test");
     
     PersistenceManager pm;
     
     //prove MyObject doesn't span tests
     pm = PMF.getPm();
     boolean notFound = false;
     try {
      pm.getObjectById(MyObject.class, "test");
      fail("should have raised not found");
     } catch (JDOObjectNotFoundException e) {
      notFound = true;
     } finally {
      pm.close();
     }
     assertTrue(notFound);
     
     pm = PMF.getPm();
     try {
      pm.makePersistent(t);
     } finally {
      pm.close();
     }
     
     pm = PMF.getPm();
     try {
      t = pm.getObjectById(MyObject.class, "test");
     } finally {
      pm.close();
     }
     
     assertNotNull(pm);
     assertEquals("test", t.getName());
    }
   }
   

4. Yay!