<project name="mybuild" basedir=".">
<target name="main">
<loadproperties srcFile="mybuild.properties"/>
<property name="result" value="Hello from mybuild | ${file.var}"/>
</target>
</project>
Testing build.xml itself with AntUnit
TweetPosted on Wednesday Jan 28, 2015 at 03:27PM in Technology
In my prevous entry I used AntUnit as a custom task unit testing framework. this time I’d try it for testing build.xml file itself (no custom tasks). it enables with antcallback task which is part of ant-contrib.
Test target is following. simply loads a properties file, then set a property named result which will be asserted in the caller (test case).
Test case is fairly simple as follows. it imports the test target and invoke a target with antcallback, then acquire a property in the calling target. then assert whether the property is set as expected. additionally, it puts a parameter named basedir to enable loading of mybuild.properties which is placed in the same directory to mybuild.xml.
<project name="mybuildTest" xmlns:au="antlib:org.apache.ant.antunit" xmlns="antlib:org.apache.tools.ant">
<taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties"/>
<import file="${project.build.outputDirectory}/mybuild.xml"/>
<target name="setUp">
<echo>setup</echo>
</target>
<target name="test1">
<antcallback target="mybuild.main" return="result">
<!-- intended to enable loading mybuild.properties -->
<param name="basedir" value="${project.build.outputDirectory}"/>
</antcallback>
<au:assertTrue>
<equals arg1="Hello from mybuild | Hello from mybuild.properties" arg2="${result}"/>
</au:assertTrue>
</target>
<target name="tearDown">
<echo>tearDown</echo>
</target>
</project>
Entire the project is available in my GitHub repository. you can test it on your environment easily with mvn clean test because Maven collects all of dependencies.
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