Setting properties for tests

[Russel Winder-4]

Sorry if this is RTFM . . .

How can I set a property in the JVM of a forked unit test JVM?

Ant has the sysproperty task as part of the junit task which does the
needful, so the goal is easy in Gant and Ant.  I am guessing it is easy
in Gradle as well but . . .

BTW The user guide needs an example of setting test forkmode to once,
the text says what has to be done but not how to do it.  cf. Section
18.11, page 103.  The Gradle build appears to have a single instance of
the string forkmode, and it is not enlightening.
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[Adam Murdoch-2]

Russel Winder wrote:
> Sorry if this is RTFM . . .
>
> How can I set a property in the JVM of a forked unit test JVM?
>
> Ant has the sysproperty task as part of the junit task which does the
> needful, so the goal is easy in Gant and Ant.  I am guessing it is easy
> in Gradle as well but . . .
>
>  

There's an example in the java quickstart chapter:

http://gradle.org/0.8/docs/userguide/tutorial_java_projects.html#N10420

Not the most obvious place to find it, I know. Perhaps a tutorial
chapter on testing would be good. And certainly a task reference with
the options listed would be useful.

> BTW The user guide needs an example of setting test forkmode to once,
> the text says what has to be done but not how to do it.  cf. Section
> 18.11, page 103.  The Gradle build appears to have a single instance of
> the string forkmode, and it is not enlightening.
>  

Forkmode is once by default.

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[Russel Winder-4]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 09:07 +1100, Adam Murdoch wrote:

>
> Russel Winder wrote:
> > Sorry if this is RTFM . . .
> >
> > How can I set a property in the JVM of a forked unit test JVM?
> >
> > Ant has the sysproperty task as part of the junit task which does the
> > needful, so the goal is easy in Gant and Ant.  I am guessing it is easy
> > in Gradle as well but . . .
> >
> >  
>
> There's an example in the java quickstart chapter:
>
> http://gradle.org/0.8/docs/userguide/tutorial_java_projects.html#N10420

Exactly the example needed to solve the problem, thanks.  As you say
this point needs more coverage in more places -- or at least more
references to this example.

I wonder if GRADLE-407 (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRADLE-407)
needs updating?

> Not the most obvious place to find it, I know. Perhaps a tutorial
> chapter on testing would be good. And certainly a task reference with
> the options listed would be useful.

Agreed.

> > BTW The user guide needs an example of setting test forkmode to once,
> > the text says what has to be done but not how to do it.  cf. Section
> > 18.11, page 103.  The Gradle build appears to have a single instance of
> > the string forkmode, and it is not enlightening.
> >  
>
> Forkmode is once by default.

As far as I can tell the user guide specifies that it is per test.
Quoting from 18.11, p103:

"Per default the tests are run in a forked JVM and the fork is done per
test. You can modify this behavior by setting forking to false or set
the forkmode to once."

So now the question is how can the user set this to per test?

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