Create a junit exclusion dynamically

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1

The following configuration works:

test {
  useJunitPlatform {
    excludeTags 'a', 'b', 'c'
  }
}

But I can’t seem to work out how to compute the list during configuration. I have a property, I can tokenize that property into a list, but I can’t seem to pass a list to excludeTags. I also tried making it a Junit expression dynamically ("a|b|c") but that didn’t seem to work either.

2

That’s why I majorly prefer Kotlin DSL where you have nice type-safety and amazing IDE support. :wink:

excludeTags is defined as public JUnitPlatformOptions excludeTags(String... excludeTags), so what you need is a String[]. So just add as String[] after your String list and it should work.

3

Thank you, I’ll give that a try. Moving to the Kotlin DSL for Gradle is on my short-to-medium term todo list. Pointers to good resources most graciously accepted.

4

Good resources for what? Kotlin DSL? In the Gradle Userguide you can switch for any example between Gradle and Kotlin DSL.

5

That’s where I’ll start, I suppose. Learning Kotlin and the Kotlin DSL at the same time is bound to lead to some confusion on my part. Despite years of working with the Gradle DSL in Groovy, I still get frustrated routinely by my inability to find answers to practical questions (like the one I asked in this thread, or the one I asked a few days ago about the test executor abruptly terminating).

Maybe this is partly because I find some aspects of Groovy just a bit weird. Perhaps Kotlin will be easier to grok. Anyway, thank you for taking the time to point me in the right direction. I do appreciate it.

6

Always happy to help and give you something back for your great work on DocBook, XProc, and so on. :slight_smile: