Neil, maybe this blog entry makes things a bit clearer for you:
http://www.practicalgradle.org/blog/2010/11/declaring-tasks/
Etienne
On 26.02.2011, at 17:46, Neil Chaudhuri wrote:
> First, thanks to Peter for the catch on the single quote. That got left in
> there from my many iterations of attempts at success.
>
> Eventually I also had to add the dir attribute to resolve a classpath issue.
> Clearly, using Maven the last couple of years has made me rusty at my Ant.
>
> Etienne, thanks for bringing the lifecycle to my attention. I will read up on
> that now.
>
> One last thing: I have found that the failonerror attribute on the java task
> isn't working for me. Is anyone seeing that? If so, does anyone care and
> consider that a bug?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2011, at 7:49 AM, Etienne Studer wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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
