Integration test not reliable with UUID as primary key

[emilpaw]

Overview of the issue

While working on jhipster/generator-jhipster-quarkus#220 I noticed that JHipster generates tests as such:

    @Test
    @Transactional
    void getAllMyEntityAS() throws Exception {
        // Initialize the database
        myEntityARepository.saveAndFlush(myEntityA);

        // Get all the myEntityAList
        restMyEntityAMockMvc
            .perform(get(ENTITY_API_URL + "?sort=id,desc"))
            .andExpect(status().isOk())
            .andExpect(content().contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE))
            .andExpect(jsonPath("$.[*].id").value(hasItem(myEntityA.getId().intValue())))
            .andExpect(jsonPath("$.[*].fieldName").value(hasItem(DEFAULT_FIELD_NAME)));
    }

I assume that ?sort=id,desc was used so that in the case of pagination, it can be assured that the newly created entity will be in the returned page. This works for the default Long IDs because they are auto incremented and as such sortable, but this does not hold true for UUIDs. So, in the case UUID is selected as the ID type, the newly created entity could possibly not be in the returned page and the test would fail.

Motivation for or Use Case

The tests should work reliably regardless of the chosen options.

Reproduce the error

Use an entity with UUID as the type. e.g.

entity MyEntityA {
    id UUID
}

Related issues

#13258

Suggest a Fix

I'm happy to help with working on the solution, but I am not sure what a good way to solve this is.

Loading all the entities by iterating over the pages could work, but this would introduce a lot of code.

JHipster Version(s)

v8.1.0

JHipster configuration

JDL entity definitions

@ChangelogDate("20240301122015")
entity MyEntityA {
  id UUID
}

paginate MyEntityA with pagination
search MyEntityA with no

[mshima]

I think the test doesn’t need to test specific values.
Need to test fields content type like optional/required, number/string and pattern.

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