[Jboss-dev-forums] [Design of JBoss Build System] - Re: test target

[<rya...@jb...>]

I'll start with the easiest questions first :-)

"tom...@jb..." wrote : I am still not totally clear on the source tags and what exactly they are defining (can these be any free form strings, or do they have to be 'main', 'test', etc.?).  
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These are just the names of the directories under your src directory.  They have no special meaning to the build system.  So if you had a src/foo directory, you could generate compile targets for it like this:

<source id="foo"/>

which would result in a build.foo target.

"tom...@jb..." wrote : Am not sure how to specify a string expression for the files I want excluded.

Yes, that's certainly a limitation.  Is this an actual need at this point?  If so, we could change that attribute to be an Ant patternset refid instead of the actual pattern.

anonymous wrote : So now just need to be able to specify exactly the jars included on the classpath for the test run and how to pass the jvmarg parameter.  I see that runtest uses pathElements for the classpath, but don't know where the values come from.  
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The pathElements tag is a special tag which resolves to the inputs of your source - and the jars in the Classpath of your inputs manfest.  So if you have:

<source id="tests">
  |    <input="jboss-common.jar"/>
  | </source>

The  will include jboss-common.jar in your test's classpath, as well as all of jboss-common.jar's dependencies.  You can see this working by using the special show target:

ant -f jbossbuild.xml show -Dshow=runtests.test

This will let you will see the target that is generated, and what the  actually resolves to.  Also, see the bottom of this page: 
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=58993&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10


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