Re: GroovyMarkup with Ant and JUnit

On 25 Mar 2004, at 18:14, Mike Clark wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm using GroovyMarkup to script Ant tasks.  So I have a Build class 
> that defines a few methods, like so:
>
> ----
>
>   void compileTests() {
>
>     ant.javac(srcdir:"test",
>               destdir:"classes",
>               classpath:classpath())
>   }
>
>   void test() {
>
>     compileTests()
>
>     ant.junit(haltonfailure:true) {
>       test(name:"com.xyz.MyTest")
>     }
>   }
>
> ----
>
> Calling "ant.javac" in the compileTests() method works brilliantly.  
> (I heart not having to type angle brackets!)

Me too! :)

There's something refreshing about scripting Ant inside a scripting 
language, rather than putting a scripting language inside CDATA 
sections inside XML.

> Calling "ant.junit" in the test() method, however, gives me:
>
>   Mar 25, 2004 11:10:28 AM groovy.util.AntBuilder createNode
>   WARNING: Could not convert tag: junit into an Ant task, data type or 
> property
>   Mar 25, 2004 11:10:28 AM groovy.util.AntBuilder createNode
>   WARNING: Could not convert tag: test into an Ant task, data type or 
> property
>
> Am I missing something obvious, or is this just a limitation of 
> GroovyMarkup at this point?

I think there's some issue here with the AntBuilder - i.e. its not 
quite figured out how to instantiate the Ant task correctly. The 
protocol to instantiate Ant tasks is surprisingly wierd & complex & 
bizarre and does change from time to time - it might just need some 
jiggery pokery in the AntBuilder class to press the right Ant buttons 
to instantiate the Task.

So its nothing to do with GroovyMarkup - its just a kink in our 
AntBuilder support. Someone else reported an issue with something else 
in Ant 1.6 - will try take a look shortly.

James
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