SBT - ignore compile errors (in tests)? - scala

in my current SBT project test:compile reports all errors, but does not generate class files for the valid and unrelated tests.
It would be useful to run these tests separately.
Is it possible to force SBT to generate all class files it can?

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compile/package multiple configurations from command line sbt scala

is there a way to build/compile all configurations at once? I have a project that has a Dev configuration in addition to the default Compile and Test configuration, and i am looking for a command or a setting in my build.sbt that would allow me to compile/package all 3 configurations at once.
Basically looking for a way to avoid having to do these 3 commands to build the entire source tree:
sbt compile
sbt dev:compile
sbt test:compile
When I use sbt from IntelliJ it is able to do this on building the project, but I am looking to do this from the command line.
First, you can run multiple tasks with a single sbt invocation:
sbt compile dev:compile test:compile
Second, you could define an alias in your build which does what you want:
addCommandAlias("compileAll", "; compile; dev:compile; test:compile")
Then, just run sbt compileAll.

How to synchronize Intellij and sbt builds for a scala project

I have an sbt project that I have imported into Intellij. Sometimes I build the project at the command line using sbt, and then when I need to debug I build it from within Intellij. However, each time I alternate it requires a full rebuild when there is no need. Both build procedures output to the same class folder, namely .../target/scala-2.11/classes, so I don't understand why a full rebuild keeps happening?
As stated by CrazyCoder, intellij and sbt build have each their own tracking of changed files for incremental build. Thus each time one re-compile a file, the other treats it as a changed file and recompile it too.
While CrazyCoder's answer describes how to make them work on separated directory, by changing the sbt compiled classes dir. This answer explain how you can configure Intellij to use sbt for all build, thus only sbt does the compilation. This is a relatively new feature.
Just check the option:
file
> Settings
> Build, Execution, Deployment
> Build Tools
> SBT
> Use SBT shell for build and import
It works at least since intellij version 2017.2.3, and most probably it is an option from the SBT plugin.
For details about this feature, see jetbrains ticket: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/SCL-10984
IntelliJ IDEA cannot reuse the classes produced by the other build systems because it has its own incremental compiler which tracks the dependencies and builds the caches during the compilation so that it can compile only modified and dependent files when you make a change in the code. When you built with SBT/Maven/Gradle or command line javac, IntelliJ IDEA compiler cache doesn't know about what has changed and which files it should compile, therefore it performs the full rebuild.
A solution would be to use different output directories for IDE and SBT, this way IntelliJ IDEA will rebuild only files modified since the last build in the IDE and your command line SBT build will not trigger a rebuild in the IDE.
This configuration is performed using the sbt-ide-settings plug-in.
Add the following into plugins.sbt (or whatever files you configure the plugins in):
resolvers += Resolver.url("jetbrains-bintray",url("http://dl.bintray.com/jetbrains/sbt-plugins/"))(Resolver.ivyStylePatterns)
addSbtPlugin("org.jetbrains" % "sbt-ide-settings" % "0.1.2")
And here is how to customize the IDE output directory in build.sbt:
ideOutputDirectory in Compile := Some(new File("target/idea/classes"))
ideOutputDirectory in Test := Some(new File("target/idea/test-classes"))
Feel free to change the paths according to your needs.

SBT - why sbt giving compilation errors while running?

I am trying to merge two modules into single module. Both are successfully running modules. I merge two modules. And trying to run the test cases.
i am compiling source and testcases by using sbt commands:
sbt
clean
compile
project module-read
test:compile
it:test
Till test:compile everything working fine but after it:test, it showing lot of compilation issues.
Could I know best way of compiling?
The test:compile task will only compile tests within the src/test/scala folder as per the default sbt test configuration.
In order to compile your integration tests (in src/it/scala) you will have to run it:compile .
See http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13.5/docs/Detailed-Topics/Testing.html#integration-tests for more info.

Using sbt 0.13.1, tests won't compile using the generated externalIvyFile

For our Scala development we currently use ivy + ant, but we are also trying to use sbt for our development workflow. This would be for the continuous incremental compilation when not using an IDE.
sbt uses ivy, so in theory this should work. But when using an ivy external file the tests won't compile.
To reproduce this you can even use the generated ivy.xml file from any sbt project.
Here are the steps to reproduce the error on a sbt project with tests,
from the sbt console run deliverLocal (deliver-local in previous versions of sbt)
copy the generated ivy file into your project home and rename it to 'ivy.xml'. From my understanding using this file should be equivalent to declaring the dependencies in build.sbt.
edit the build.sbt, add externalIvyFile() on one line and then comment all dependencies declarations
in the console, run reload, then test
compile will run just fine, but test will fail at compile time. None of the dependencies will be honoured, not even the production code of the current project.
What am I missing?
In my case it worked with the following build.sbt:
externalIvyFile()
classpathConfiguration in Compile := Compile
classpathConfiguration in Test := Test
classpathConfiguration in Runtime := Runtime
You just need the extra three lines in the end. Here is a link for more info: http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Detailed-Topics/Library-Management.html#ivy-file-dependency-configuration
Look for the Full Ivy Example. I hope it helps!
EDIT: Just to be complete - here is what pointed me to the above link: https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/849.

How to compile tests with SBT without running them

Is there a way to build tests with SBT without running them?
My own use case is to run static analysis on the test code by using a scalac plugin. Another possible use case is to run some or all of the test code using a separate runner than the one built into SBT.
Ideally there would be a solution to this problem that applies to any SBT project. For example, Maven has a test-compile command that can be used just to compile the tests without running them. It would be great if SBT had the same thing.
Less ideal, but still very helpful, would be solutions that involve modifying the project's build files.
Just use the Test / compile command.
Test/compile works for compiling your unit tests.
To compile integration tests you can use IntegrationTest/compile.
Another hint to continuously compile on every file change: ~Test/compile
We have a build.sbt file that is used for multiple projects. Doing sbt test:compile compiled the tests for every single project and took over 30 minutes.
I found out I can compile only the tests for a specific project named xyz by doing:
sbt xyz/test:compile
Using sbt version 1.5.0 and higher test:compile returns deprecation warning.
Use Test / compile.
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