How can I start an interactive Clojure REPL as a Gradle task?

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I’m using Gradle + the Clojuresque plugin for a large and complicated project. It would be desirable to be able to type “gradle :subproject:repl” and have the REPL fired up with all dependencies of “:subproject” on the classpath.

So far I have this:

task repl(type: JavaExec) {
        group "Other"
        description "Launches a Clojure REPL with the ${project} testCompile classpath"
          classpath configurations.testCompile
        classpath sourceSets.main.clojure.srcDirs
        classpath sourceSets.test.clojure.srcDirs
        main "clojure.main"
    }

That builds the right command and the REPL starts, then immediately shuts down:

  Starting process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_12.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java''. Working directory: /Users/hlship/workspaces/annadale/nexus/core-services Command: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_12.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -cp /Users/hlship/workspaces/annadale/nexus/util/logging/build/l  ...  f9f135bf4/jackson-dataformat-smile-2.0.4.jar:/Users/hlship/workspaces/annadale/nexus/core-services/src/main/clojure:/Users/hlship/workspaces/annadale/nexus/core-services/src/test/clojure clojure.main  An attempt to initialize for well behaving parent process finished.  Successfully started process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_12.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java''  Clojure 1.4.0  user=>

Process 'command '/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_12.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java'' finished with exit value 0 (state: SUCCEEDED)

 BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Any advice on how to, say, set JavaExec.inputStream to read from the console?

2

‘standardInput System.in’, as used for the ‘scalaConsole’ task, should get you a bit further. What’s still missing though is a way to suppress the Gradle status line, as well as true console support (arrow keys etc.).

3

That helps but its not exactly usable. It would be nice if JavaExec had an option for just this purpose.

4

Sure. Better console support is in the pipeline, but I can’t say which release it will be scheduled for.

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