groovyc ant task fails with fork="true" - ant

When I run groovyc without the fork option, it works fine. But with fork="true" it fails with an error message:
Error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.groovy.ant.FileSystemCompilerFacade
What is wrong here?
Ant task:
<taskdef name="groovyc" classname="org.codehaus.groovy.ant.Groovyc" classpathref="test.path" />
<groovyc fork="true" srcdir="../myproject/src-test" destdir="${build.test.dir}">
<javac debug="true" source="1.7" target="1.7" >
<compilerarg value="-XX:-UseSplitVerifier"/>
</javac>
</groovyc>
EDIT:
test.path contains a groovy jar:
(...):/home/pkalinow/(..)/groovy-all-1.8.6.jar:(...)

The classpathref="test.path" must be specified in both <taskdef> and <groovyc> invocations when groovyc is forked.
I cannot find any confirmation in the documentation, but it seems, that only non-forking groovyc is inheriting classpath from taskdef.

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How to display the classpath build in an Ant Junit task

An Ant junit task that has worked for months is suddenly failing with a NoClassDefFoundError for classes that used to be found. Is there a way to display the classpath that is built in the junit task?
<target name="basic-junit-test" description="Run a single JUnit test. ">
<junit printsummary="yes" fork="no" haltonfailure="yes">
<classpath>
<pathelement location="target/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar"/>
.
. many other pathelements
.
</classpath>
<test name="com.mycompany.command.TestUNLOCKACCOUNTCommand" outfile="${report.dir}/junit_test_results" />
</junit>
</target>
I'm a big fan of declaring my Ant paths at the top of my build and using classpath references in the various tasks.
To pathconvert task can be used to print the classpath contents as a property:
<path id="test.path">
<pathelement location="target/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar"/>
.
. many other pathelements
.
</path>
<target name="echo-path" description="Echo test path">
<pathconvert targetos="unix" property="test.path.unix" refid="test.path">
<echo message="Test path: ${test.path.unix}"/>
</target>
<target name="basic-junit-test" depends="echo-path" description="Run a single JUnit test. ">
<junit printsummary="yes" fork="no" haltonfailure="yes">
<classpath>
<path refid="test.path"/>
</classpath>
<test name="com.mycompany.command.TestUNLOCKACCOUNTCommand" outfile="${report.dir}/junit_test_results" />
</junit>
</target>
Update
Just occurred to me: an even simpler solution might be to run Ant in debug mode.
This is not really the answer to my question, Mark O'Connor and Rebse gave excellent answers, instead this is a more thorough explanation of what happened to cause me to ask the question in the first place. I had an ANT Junit task that I had used to develop about 100 controller classes. I used it for the first time in several months and every test failed with a classNotFound exception. The class that was not found was one that I was sure should be on the classpath, it was a locally created jar file that is automatically picked up for the build. I thought that somehow the classpath was at fault so I wanted to display it when a test was run.
After many attempts to figure out what was going on I put a try block around the code that was producing the classNotFound exception and I saw that the local class was not the class that was not being found. This lead me to a search of the lib directory and eventually (after about six hours) I realized that the problem was that I had replaced an older version of slf4j-api with a newer version. There was a dependency on a method that was in the older version but not in the newer.
Mark's answer just helped me, but just a quick note as I needed to close the pathconvert xml element when copying the example in the answer.
<pathconvert targetos="unix" property="test.path.unix" refid="test.path" />

How to show Assembled Ant Classpath

I'm developing a Java project using Eclipse, and Ant as a build tool. When I run "ant all" from the command line, my project builds without any errors, but on Eclipse I get many compilation errors.
So I thought I'd copy Ant's Classpath onto my Eclipse Project's Build Path.
Is there an Ant task/command to show that? Like "ant just show me your assembled classpath" or something?
If you run Ant with the -verbose and -debug flags, you'll see all gory details of what javac is doing, including the classpath.
I would introduce a task for printing the classpath, and call that task with antcall. The classpath would be given as a parameter to that task.
You can do something like this in your target, so for example
lets say you've defined your classpath as
<path id="project.classpath">
<fileset dir="${SERVER_DEV}/classes">
<include name="*.zip"/>
<include name="*.jar"/>
</fileset>
<pathelement location="${SERVER_DEV}/3rdParty/jre/NT/1.5.0/lib/jsse.jar"/>
</path>
then you can do something like
<target name="compile" depends="init" description="Compiles All Java Sources">
<property name="myclasspath" refid="project.classpath"/>
<echo message="Classpath = ${myclasspath}"/>
<javac ...>
....
</javac>
</target>
It will print out the classpath used to run the specific target

How to get Sonar to export test stats?

I have the following Sonar Ant target defined:
<target name='sonar'>
<property name='sonar.sources' value='${src.dir}'/>
<property name='sonar.tests' value='${test.src.dir}'/>
<property name='sonar.binaries' value='build/classes'/>
<path id='jars'>
<fileset dir='${env.JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib' includes='*.jar'/>
<fileset dir='build/lib/test' includes='*.jar'/>
</path>
<pathconvert property='sonar.libraries' refid='jars' pathsep=','/>
<exec executable='p4' outputproperty='p4.P4CLIENT'>
<arg value='set'/>
<arg value='P4CLIENT'/>
</exec>
<propertyregex
property='p4client'
input='${p4.P4CLIENT}'
regexp='P4CLIENT=([^ ]+) *.*'
replace='\1'/>
<propertyregex
property='sonar.timestamp'
input='${build.time}'
regexp='_'
replace='T'/>
<sonar:sonar key='com.netflix:${module.name}' version='${p4client}#${sonar.timestamp}' xmlns:sonar='antlib:org.sonar.ant'/>
<property name='sonar.dynamicAnalysis' value='reuseReports'/>
<property name='sonar.emma.reportPath' value='${coverage.dir}'/>
</target>
When I run 'ant sonar' and bring up Sonar in my browser, I see info about the classes in the src directory, but nothing about the stuff in the test directory.
If I add ${test.src.dir} to sonar.sources and not set sonar.tests, I see some info about the test classes, but Sonar still reports 0 Test Successes.
How do I get it so I can drill down to each test method and their stats?
For anyone else that runs across this issue, I finally got Sonar to report on our Emma Code coverage. The first problem was that the Emma plugin did not come with the version of Sonar I was using (3.1.1). I had to download it and install it to the extensions/plugins directory of Sonar and restart it.
Then I had to set the following properties in my build.xml:
<property name="sonar.core.codeCoveragePlugin" value="emma" />
<property name="sonar.emma.reportPath" value="${coverage.dir}" />
After this, I atleast saw the following output after running the Sonar ant task:
[sonar:sonar] 13:41:49.705 WARN org.sonar.INFO - No coverage (*.ec) file found in /my/local/path
[sonar:sonar] 13:41:49.708 WARN org.sonar.INFO - No metadata (*.em) file found in /my/local/path
After some digging, I found that inside of the Sonar Emma plugin, it is hard-coded to look for a .ec (coverage) file and a .em (metadata) file. Unfortunately, my coverage file had a .emma extension as did my metadata file and I was unable to rename them as it would break other functionality. So I wrote the following Ant task to copy the files to match the naming standard that the Sonar Emma plugin expects.
<target name="createEmmaFilesWithSonarNamingStandard" depends="defineAntContribTasks">
<if>
<available file="${coverage.dir}/metadata.emma" />
<then>
<copyfile src="${coverage.dir}/metadata.emma" dest="${coverage.dir}/metadata.em" />
</then>
</if>
<if>
<available file="${coverage.dir}/coverage.emma" />
<then>
<copyfile src="${coverage.dir}/coverage.emma" dest="${coverage.dir}/coverage.ec" />
</then>
</if>
</target>
After running this again, I came across a new problem:
org.sonar.api.utils.SonarException: java.io.IOException: cannot read [/my/local/path/build/coverage/metadata.em]: created by another EMMA version [2.0.5312]
After some more digging, I found that the Sonar Emma 1.0.1 plugin was compiled against Emma 2.0.5312 and the Sonar Emma 1.1 and 1.2.x against Emma version 2.1.5320 as stated on the Sonar Emma plugin page.
I downloaded the 2.1.5320 version of Emma, replaced both emma.jar as well as emma_ant.jar in my Ant lib directory. After a clean re-compile and test, I was able to re-run the Sonar Ant task and have my code coverage reflected on Sonar.
The property 'sonar.surefire.reportsPath' needs to be defined before the definition of the sonar target.
The following definition gets the test info exported (although it's still not exporting coverage info):
<property name='sonar.surefire.reportsPath' value='${test.dir}'/>
<property name='sonar.dynamicAnalysis' value='reuseReports'/>
<property name='sonar.emma.reportPath' value='${coverage.report.dir}'/>
<target name='sonar'>
<property name='sonar.sources' value='${src.dir}'/>
<property name='sonar.tests' value='${test.src.dir}'/>
<property name='sonar.binaries' value='${build.dir}'/>
<path id='jars'>
<fileset dir='${env.JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib' includes='*.jar'/>
<fileset dir='${ivy.lib.dir}/test' includes='*.jar'/>
</path>
<pathconvert property='sonar.libraries' refid='jars' pathsep=','/>
<exec executable='p4' outputproperty='p4.P4CLIENT'>
<arg value='set'/>
<arg value='P4CLIENT'/>
</exec>
<propertyregex
property='p4client'
input='${p4.P4CLIENT}'
regexp='P4CLIENT=([^ ]+) *.*'
replace='\1'/>
<propertyregex
property='sonar.timestamp'
input='${build.time}'
regexp='_'
replace='T'/>
<sonar:sonar key='com.netflix:${module.name}' version='${p4client}#${sonar.timestamp}' xmlns:sonar='antlib:org.sonar.ant'/>
</target>

How do I pass an argument to an Ant task?

I'm not very good with Ant, but we're using it as a build tool. Right now, we can run "ant test" and it'll run through all the unit tests.
However, I'd love to be able to do something like ant test some_module and have it accept some_module as a parameter, and only test that.
I haven't been able to find how to pass command line args to Ant - any ideas?
One solution might be as follows. (I have a project that does this.)
Have a separate target similar to test with a fileset that restricts the test to one class only. Then pass the name of that class using -D at the ant command line:
ant -Dtest.module=MyClassUnderTest single_test
In the build.xml (highly reduced):
<target name="single_test" depends="compile" description="Run one unit test">
<junit>
<batchtest>
<fileset dir="${test.dir}" includes="**/${test.module}.class" />
</batchtest>
</junit>
</target>
You can also define a property with an optional default value that can be replaced via command line, e.g.
<target name="test">
<property name="moduleName" value="default-module" />
<echo message="Testing Module: ${moduleName}"/>
....
</target>
and run it as:
ant test -DmoduleName=ModuleX
What about using some conditional in your test target and the specifying -Dcondition=true?
<target name="test" depends="_test, _test_if_true>
...
</target>
<target name="_test_if_true" if="condition">
...
</target>
<target name="_test" unless="condition">
...
</target>
Adapted a bit from the ant faq.
You can define a property on commandline when invoking ant:
ant -Dtest.module=mymodulename
Then you can use it as any other ant property:
...
<fileset dir="${test.dir}" includes="**/${test.module}.class" />
...
Have a look at Ant's manual.
I tried the solutions posted here for the very same original question. Yes just use ant -D<arg_name>. THe -D is a "keyword" I guess. I'm no ant expert and have not read the manuals in detail. Then inside the ant XML files can be accessed like: ${arg_name}
For instance you can have an argument name like: arg.myarg, so in XML ${arg.myarg}.
Ant really doesn't have parameters_ for the build file. I can think of a few ways to do this:
Use a special target to specify the tests. You can use the <for/> task from AntContrib to allow you to specify multiple tests. You'll need to download the Ant-Contrib jar file. I recommend placing it inside your project under the `${basedir}/antlib/antcontrib" directory. That way, when others checkout your project, they get the needed Ant-Contrib jar file.
<property name="antlib.dir" value="${basedir}/antlib"/>
<property name="antcontrib.dir" value="${antlib}/antcontrib"/>
<!-- Set up the ant contrib tasks for your use -->
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antlib.xml">
<classpath>
<fileset dir="${antcontrib.dir}"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<target name="select-test"
description="Select the tests to run"
depends="test-compile"
if="junit-tests">
<for parameter="module"
list="${junit-tests}"
delimiter=" ">
<sequential>
<junit
fork="true"
...>
<batchtest todir="$target/unit-tests">
<fileset dir="${test.destdir}">
<include name="**/#{module}.class"/>
</fileset>
</junit>
</sequential>
</for>
</target>
You cab now run multiple tests like this:
$ ant -D"test-one test-two test-three" select-test
You could try this to access one target at a time. Add these lines to your build.xml file :
<project name="whatever" default="default">
<input message="Please select module:" addproperty="mod" />
<target name="default" depends="${mod}/>
...
</project>
This allows you to enter the module you want to execute and execute that itself instead of running the whole build.xml
You might need to make a few more changes to your build.xml for this to work perfectly.
For the arguments , there is Facility called property. You need to set the property. As in ANT plain arguments is taken as target name.
Lest say you have two modules in your project ModuleX and ModuleY where ModuleX has 2 testcases to run and ModuleY with 10 testcases.
You could do something like this :
ant runTestsOnModule -Dtestmodule="ModuleX"
OR to test all modules by calling
ant tests
<target name="runTestsOnModule">
<antCall target="testcase${testmodule}"/>
</target>'
<! -- run single module -->
<target name="runTestsOnModule">
<antCall target="testcase${testmodule}"/>
</target>
<!--run all tests-->
<target name="tests">
<antcall target="testcaseModuleX">
<antcall target="testCaseModuleY">
</target>
<target name="testcaseModuleX">
..run junit task to call 2 testcase
</target>
<target name="testcaseModuleY">
....run junit task to call 10 testcase
</target>

Running "pure" JUnit 4 tests using ant

We have migrated to both JUnit 4 and ant 1.7
The tests runs fine in eclipse, but the annotations are ignored when running the tests using ant.
According to the Ant junit task documentation:
It also works with JUnit 4.0, including "pure" JUnit 4 tests using only annotations and no JUnit4TestAdapter.
But the documentation doesn't elaborate on how it should be configured.
Is there any special setting required for the junit task? Am I missing something?
We have both Tests that extends TestCase (i.e. 3.8 style) and "pure" Junit 4 tests, could that be the problem?
I am using pure JUnit4 tests with Ant.
Here is the interesting part of my build file:
<junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
<formatter type="xml"/>
<classpath refid="path.test"/>
<batchtest fork="yes" todir="${dir.report.unittests.xml}">
<fileset dir="src">
<include name="**/*Test*.java"/>
</fileset>
</batchtest>
</junit>
Make sure you have the latest version of the junit.jar file in the lib directory of Ant. As far as I know the required version is delivered with ant 1.7 or higher versions...
Ant ships with a version of JUnit 3 by default. JUnit 3 has no support for test annotations.
To use the JUnit 4 annotations from the junit task make sure that you provide the location of a JUnit 4 jar in a nested classpath element of the junit task (see this entry in the ant FAQ).
<junit showoutput="yes" fork="true">
<classpath>
<!-- The location of the JUnit version that you want to use -->
<pathelement location="lib/junit-4.9b1.jar"/>
</classpath>
<formatter type="plain" usefile="false" />
<batchtest>
<fileset dir="${tests.dir}"/>
</batchtest>
</junit>
This is a preferable solution to overwriting the ant-junit.jar in ANT_HOME/lib as it means you can keep your JUnit jar in source control alongside your code making upgrades to later versions straightforward.
Note that whilst I haven't specified any include pattern in my fileset above this does mean that the junit task will attempt to run JUnit against all the classes in that directory structure which might result in a number of classes being included that don't contain any tests depending on how you have structured your source files.
You can finally only find and execute tests with the skipNonTests parameter added in ant 1.9.3+!
This is the code snippet from the accepted answer above (except for the new skipNonTests parameter and getting rid of the "Test" in the filename requirement):
<junit printsummary="yes" haltonfailure="yes">
<formatter type="xml"/>
<classpath refid="path.test"/>
<batchtest skipNonTests="true" fork="yes" todir="${dir.report.unittests.xml}">
<fileset dir="src">
<include name="**/*.java"/>
</fileset>
</batchtest>
</junit>
This happened to me and it was because I was both using annotations and extending TestCase.
public class TestXXX extends TestCase {
#Test
public void testSimpleValidCase() {
// this was running
}
#Test
public void simpleValidCase() {
// this wasn't running
}
}
When you extend TestCase you are assuming JUnit3 style so JUnit4 annotations are ignored.
The solution is to stop extending TestCase.
Verify your classpath definition...
this solved my problem.
<path id="classpath" description="Classpath do Projeto">
<fileset dir="${LIB}">
<include name="**/*.jar" />
<exclude name="**/.SVN/*.*"/>
</fileset>
</path>
This is the relevant part of my generic ant script... not sure if that'll help you or not..
<junit fork="true"
forkmode="once"
haltonfailure="false"
haltonerror="false"
failureproperty="tests.failures"
errorproperty="tests.errors"
includeantruntime="true"
showoutput="true"
printsummary="true">
<classpath>
<path refid="path-id.test.classpath.run"/>
</classpath>
<formatter type="xml"/>
<batchtest fork="yes"
todir="${dir.build.testresults}">
<fileset dir="${dir.src.tests}">
<include name="**/*Test.java"/>
</fileset>
</batchtest>
</junit>
Apply this annotation to the other classes org.junit.Ignore
I also tried to do tests with JUnit 4.0 without JUnit4TestAdapter, i.e. without method
public static junit.framework.Test suite() {
return new JUnit4TestAdapter(SomeTestClass.class);
}
I use ant 1.9.4.
Running ant test verbose (ant -v ) shows
[junit] Running multiple tests in the same VM
[junit] Implicitly adding /usr/share/java/junit.jar:/usr/sharejava/ant-launcher.jar:/usr/share/java/ant.jar:/usr/share/java/ant/ant-junit.jar to CLASSPATH
Aha, but still there is some ant-junit-task.
Downloading this shows in addition
/usr/share/java/ant/ant-junit4.jar which is not added implicitly.
I just added it explicitly:
<junit printsummary="yes"
fork="yes"
forkmode="once"
maxmemory="1023m"
showoutput="no">
...
<classpath>
<pathelement path="...:${junitJar}:${hamcrestJar}:/usr/share/java/ant/ant-junit4.jar" />
</classpath>
...
</junit>
and it worked. Without: no.
I am aware that this solution is not beautiful at all...
What I ended up doing was adding an Ant to one of my definitions that is used by the task>. Et voila.

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