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<ceylon-test> Ant task

Usage

Note: You must declare the tasks with a <typedef>.

Description

Executes tests

The <ceylon-test> ant task wraps the ceylon test command.

Attributes

Attribute Description Required
autoExportMavenDependencies

Equivalent to the --auto-export-maven-dependencies command line option. When using JBoss Modules (the default), treats all module dependencies between Maven modules as shared.

 No
cacheRep

Equivalent to the --cacherep command line option. Specifies the folder to use for caching downloaded modules. (default: ~/.ceylon/cache)

 No
compile

Equivalent to the --compile command line option. Determines if and how compilation should be handled. Allowed flags include: never, once, force, check.

 No
config

Equivalent to the --config command line option. Specifies the configuration file to use for this tool. (default: ./.ceylon/config)

 No
cwd

Equivalent to the --cwd command line option. Specifies the current working directory for this tool. (default: the directory where the tool is run from)

 No
errorProperty

The ant property to set to true in the event of an error

 No
executable

The location of the ceylon executable script.

 No
failOnError

Whether an error in executing this task should fail the ant build

 No
flatClasspath

Equivalent to the --flat-classpath command line option. Launches the Ceylon module using a flat classpath.

 No
fork

Whether the task should be run in a separate VM (default: true).

 No
inheritAll

Whether a task should inherit environment and properties. Only applies when forked == true.

 No
linkWithCurrentDistribution No
noDefaultRepositories

Equivalent to the --no-default-repositories command line option. Indicates that the default repositories should not be used.

 No
offline

Equivalent to the --offline command line option. Enables offline mode that will prevent connections to remote repositories.

 No
overrides

Equivalent to the --overrides command line option. Specifies the XML file to use to load module overrides. See http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/current/reference/repository/maven/ for information. Experimental.

 No
report

Equivalent to the --report command line option. Generates the test results report into HTML format, output directory is reports/test (experimental).

 No
resultProperty

The ant property to set to the Ceylon program exit code

 No
stacktraces

Equivalent to the --stacktraces command line option. If an error propagates to the top level tool, print its stack trace.

 No
sysRep

Equivalent to the --sysrep command line option. Specifies the system repository containing essential modules. (default: $CEYLON_HOME/repo)

 No
tap

Equivalent to the --tap command line option. Enables the Test Anything Protocol v13.

 No
verbose

Equivalent to the --verbose command line option. Produce verbose output. If no flags are given then be verbose about everything, otherwise just be verbose about the flags which are present. Allowed flags include: all, loader.

 No
version

Equivalent to the --version command line option. Specifies which version of the test module to use.

 No

Nested elements

<define>

A <define> element is used to set system properties for the ant task being executed. Equivalent to the --define command line option. Set a system property

The value for the system property can either be passed as a value attribute:

<define key="org.example.helloworld.greeting" value="Hi"/>

or it can be the text between the begin and end tags:

<define key="org.example.helloworld.greeting">Hi</define>

Alternatively, it is posible to dispense with the attributes and use the syntax

<define>org.example.helloworld.greeting=Hi</define>
Element Description Required
key

The property to be defined

 No
value

The value of the define

 No

<module>

A module to test

A <module> element must specify a name, and may specify a version. If the relevant ceylon task don't require a version it will be ignored.

Element Description Required
name

The module name.

 Yes
version

The module version. Whether this is required depends on the task

 No

<moduleSet>

Modules to test

A <moduleset> containing a number of <sourcemodule>s and/or <module> subelements. It can be defined at the top level and then used by reference using the refid attribute, so you don't have to repeat the same list of modules all the time.

Element Description Required
refid

A reference to a <moduleset> defined elsewhere.

 No

<rep>

A module repository containing dependencies. Can be specified multiple times. Defaults to <rep url="./modules"/>.

Element Description Required
url

The URL or path of the module repository.

 Yes, unless a `refid` is given
refid

A reference to a <rep> defined outside this task.

 No

<reposet>

A set of module repositories containing dependencies. Can be specified multiple times. Default to modules.

A <reposet> element contains a number of <repo> and/or <reposet> elements. It can be defined at the top level, and then used by reference using the refid attribute so you don't have to repeat the same list of repositories all the time.

Element Description Required
refid

A reference to a <reposet> defined elsewhere.

 No

<sourceModules>

Modules to test

Includes all the ceylon modules in a given source directory, as specified by the dir attribute. This saves you having to explicitly list all the modules to be compiled, you can instead just compile all the modules in a given directory.

Element Description Required
dir

The directory containing module source files

 No

<test>

The name of a test to run. If no <test>s are given then all tests in the given <module>/<moduleset>/<sourcemodule> Equivalent to the --test command line option. Specifies which tests will be run.

Element Description Required
test

A test to run.

 No

See also