I have a plugin that adjusts the main Test task as well as creating a few new ones on the fly.
I’d like to test the execution of these tests as part of the plugin’s src/main/test using TestKit/GradleRunner. I’ve tried a number of options, none of which worked:
- “test projects” as subprojects of the main plugin project. The main issue with this one is the inability to use project-based dependency in
buildscript/pluginManagement. And in retrospect, even if I could get that to work, the plugin jar would not even be available (generally) when Gradle configures the subprojects. - “test projects” defined in plugin’s
src/test/resourcesdirectory. The idea here being that the projects are copied to the test resources build directory - I use a class-path look up to know the location and set the GradleRunner’s work directrory. The problem with this one is intermittent - usually the issue is the inability to locate the generated subproject test classes (compileTestClasses shows NO_SOURCE). No idea why.
Is this even possible consistently? Any pointers?
Is the only option to test plugin tasks by deploying and using a standalone (unrelated to the plugin project) test project?
