Carson Gross created SUREFIRE-815:
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Summary: Integrating Gosu (http://gosu-lang.org) tests into
Surefire.
Key: SUREFIRE-815
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SUREFIRE-815
Project: Maven Surefire
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Maven Surefire Plugin
Affects Versions: 2.11
Reporter: Carson Gross
I would like to integrate Gosu-based tests into the Surefire plugin. Gosu is a
JVM-based programming language. It is compiled with a slightly different model
than java: rather than shipping class files, it ships source files and compiles
them on-demand, more like scripting languages such as JRuby.
We are developing a maven plugin that wires in gosu support for maven here:
https://github.com/carsongross/maven-gosu-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/org/gosu_lang/tools/maven/GosuArtifactMojo.java
As you can see, it adds POM dependencies to the core gosu jars, providing gosu
support. I'd like to extend this plugin to direct surefire how to detect and
run Gosu-based tests.
Investigating the surefire plugin code, it looks like what I need to do is
specify a custom DirectoryScanner. I have two questions on this (and I
apologize, I am very new to Maven, but could not find how to do this via the
documentation):
1) Can I specify a custom scanner from the command line? That would get me
started writing my scanner.
2) Is there an API in Maven for automatically setting properties (or does it
use the standard System properties API) such that I could pass this custom
DirectoryScanner along programmatically from our maven plugin?
In a private email, Kristian mentioned the following issue:
"There is one more hurdle you will need to solve, and that's how to add the
Gosu stuff to the classpath of the fork. I suppose you should add them as
dependencies to the surefire-plugin, but there is currently no automatic way to
transfer these to the fork."
I'm hoping that the fact that we add the dependencies to the parent POM solves
this problem (I assume that this is how other libraries are included in
surefire tests) but I do not understand the Maven dependencies and classloader
setup well enough to know for sure. I'll need to experiment.
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