testRuntime and cucumber

[dbahlbeck]

Hi,
I have a gradle project using the cucumber plugin that has a testRuntime dependency like this:

dependencies {
  testCompile project(':projectA')
  testRuntime project(':projectB')
}

in projectB there are a number of classes and resources that are only required at runtime. Unfortunately the jars for these projects are not build when I run the cucumber task, resulting in resources not being found etc.

How do I go about fixing this? Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug?

Thanks in advance!

[viphe]

Hi,
The Cucumber plugin does not change anything to your testCompile or testRuntime deps or their interpretation. cucumberCompile and cucumberRuntime just depend on those.
Make sure your test classes compile correctly even without any Cucumber stuff.
If you could come up with some sample project replicating your issue, I should be able to look into it.

Cheers.

[dbahlbeck]

Hi again,

Sorry for the long delay in responding. I have made a small Gradle multiproject that reproduces the problem. I have added it to github here: https://github.com/wursley/cucumber-test-dep

Here's a short summary of the code:

There are two projects 'proj1' and 'proj2'.
Proj1 contains:

• the cucumber features and glue code
• a Junit test that does the same as the cucumber glue code
• a testRuntime dependency to proj2

Proj2 contains:

• a class with a method that prints a message to stdout

To reproduce the problem run:

• gradlew clean :proj1:cucumber

Compare this with running:

• gradlew clean :proj1:test

You'll see in the Gradle output that when running :proj1:cucumber that the code for proj2 is not compiled.

Thanks for any help! :-)

[viphe]

Thanks! This sounds awesome.
I will try to look at it as soon I can.