1 Eclipse project, 2 artifacts with Gradle - eclipse

Question

I want to create structure for my new project and I intend to build it with Gradle. I already know that if I place sources and tests in one project plugins like MoreUnit will handle it easily and create tests for my classes right where I want them.
However it creates some awkward dependency issues when my project consists of several subprojects depending on each other - to be precise when I want to use some common code in tests in project A and then reuse it in tests in project B I had to do some workarounds like
project(':B') {
// ...
dependencies {
// ...
if (noEclipseTask) {
testCompile project(':A').sourceSets.test.output
}
}
}
sometimes there were also some evaluation problem so another hack had to be introduced:
project(':B') {
evaluationDependsOn(':A')
}
Splitting this into 2 separate projects got rid of that issue but then MoreUnit no longer was able to trace where it should create new test files, and mark which methods have been tested. I haven't found anything in MoreUnit config that would allow me to fix that, so am trying to fix this from Gradle side.
Can we arrange things so I can have several subprojects, sources and tests are arranged in maven like manner (project/src/java, project/test/java) but tests and sources will create separate artifacts? If I am solving the wrong problem then how should I solve the right one?

Answer 1

You can create some testenv jar for common like:
sourceSets {
testenv {
compileClasspath += main.output
runtimeClasspath += main.output
}
}
configurations {
testenvCompile {
extendsFrom runtime
}
testCompile {
extendsFrom testenvRuntime
}
testenvDefault {
extendsFrom testenvRuntime
}
}
and
task testenvJar(type: Jar, group: 'build', description: 'Assembles a jar archive containing the testenv classes.') {
from sourceSets.testenv.output
appendix = 'testenv'
// add artifacts to testenvRuntime as task 'jar' does automatically (see JavaPlugin#configureArchivesAndComponent:106 and http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/java_plugin.html, "Figure 23.2. Java plugin - dependency configurations")
configurations.testenvRuntime.artifacts.add new org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.publish.ArchivePublishArtifact(testenvJar)
}
task testenvSourcesJar(type: Jar, group: 'build', description: 'Assembles a jar archive containing all testenv sources.') {
from sourceSets.testenv.allSource
appendix = 'testenv'
classifier = 'sources'
}
artifacts {
archives testenvJar
archives testenvSourcesJar
}
and use it in your depended projects like
testCompile project(path: ':common', configuration: 'testenvDefault')
I hope this helps!