Is there an API for plugins to access command line parameters?

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I have a couple custom test plugins (one for cucumber w/ scala/java, and another for jruby rspec, for example), and it would be cool to hook into the command line parameters to specify a specific test to run, rather than running the whole suite. I think gradle 1.11 added the ‘–tests’ command line parameter to specify which junit/testng unit tests should be run; though I haven’t found anything in the docs about how to get at this value. Is this test selection api available to custom plugins as well?

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hey matt, you can access the startparameter of a gradle build from the buildscript using

gradle.startParameter

or using Project#getGradle().getStartParameter() in you plugin.

The commandline option ‘–tests’ is passed to ‘Test#setTestNameIncludePattern(String)’ and can be read via 'Test#getFilter()#getIncludePatterns). Have a look at the Gradle DSL reference for the Test task for further information.

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Your tasks (not your plugin) can specify a command option via the @Option annotation. You can see an example of it on DependencyInsightReportTask