Minor correction to my previous code sample where I forgot the task name:
task startTomcat << {
ant.java(...)
}
Etienne
On 26.02.2011, at 09:08, Etienne Studer wrote:
> Hi Neil
>
> Are you aware that you are starting Tomcat during the configuration phase of
> Gradle and not during the execution phase?
>
> If you add the <<, Tomcat will be started during the execution phase of
> Gradle. This would also make sure that Tomcat is only started if Gradle
> determines that the startTomcat task needs to run, i.e. startTomcat is
> specified on the command line or it is a dependency of a task specified on
> the command line.
>
> task << {
> ant.java(...)
> }
>
> Regards, Etienne
>
>
>
> On 26.02.2011, at 01:59, Neil Chaudhuri wrote:
>
>> I would like to start and stop Tomcat with Gradle tasks, but I figured I
>> would start slowly and see if I could get things started first. Here is my
>> task (executed on my Windows box):
>>
>> tomcatHome = System.getenv()["CATALINA_HOME"]
>>
>> task startTomcat() {
>> ant.java(jar: tomcatHome + "\\bin\\bootstrap.jar'", fork: "true") {
>> arg value: "start"
>> classpath {
>> pathelement path: tomcatHome + "\\lib"
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>> The result is this:
>>
>> 19:51:38.234 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.project.ant.AntLoggingAdapter]
>> Execute:Java13CommandLauncher: Executing 'C:\Sun\SDK\jdk\jre\bin\java.exe'
>> with arguments:
>> '-classpath'
>> 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\lib'
>> '-jar'
>> 'C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin\bootstrap.jar''
>> 'start'
>>
>> The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
>> not part of the command.
>> 19:51:38.343 [INFO] [org.gradle.api.internal.project.ant.AntLoggingAdapter]
>> [ant:java] Unable to access jarfile C:\Program Files\Apache Software
>> Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\bin\bootstrap.jar'
>>
>> Assume that file is there. Is there anything obviously wrong I am doing?
>>
>> Incidentally, I tried adding escaped quotation marks to account for the
>> spaces in the path, but that really made things weird.
>>
>> Any insight would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Etienne Studer
> Senior Software Developer
>
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>
Etienne Studer
Senior Software Developer
Canoo Engineering AG
Kirschgartenstrasse 5
CH-4051 Basel
T +41 61 228 94 44
F +41 61 228 94 49
[email protected]
www.canoo.com
