Mocking project.ant, best approach

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In my task action I would like to implement a mock for the project antbuilder. I’m not too concerned what happens during that ant task call, but I would like to validate through unit testing that antBuilderInput is being populated correctly.

@TaskAction
    void runWlDeployCommand() {
          antBuilderInput = [:]
        antBuilderInput += getConnectionArgs()
        antBuilderInput += getUserCredentialArgs()
        antBuilderInput += getCommonArgs()
          ant.taskdef( name: 'wldeploy',
                    classname: 'weblogic.ant.taskdefs.management.WLDeploy',
                    classpath: project.configurations.weblogic.asPath )
        ant.wldeploy( antBuilderInput )
      }

Any help would be gratefully received.

2

Task actions are difficult to unit test. Instead I’d look for other solutions, such as extracting population of ‘antBuilderInput’ and testing it separately.

3

Thanks Peter, I had thought that may be the case. It should be easy enough for me to test in other ways - it may cause problems with future implementations but I will cross those bridges when they arrive.