I generally prefer Maven2, but I’m currently on a project using a custom ant build script – and I’m over having to type -Dskip.junit=true when I just want to generate a quick jar without running the tests.
To easily switch off tests, I modified ant.bat so that it looks for a command line parameter ’st’ and if found, it will substitute it with -Dskip.junit=true.
In Ant 1.7.0, you just need to change line 68 in block ‘:setupArgs’ from
set ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS=%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS% %1
to
if “”%1″”==”"st”" (set ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS=%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS% -Dskip.junit=true) else (set ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS=%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS% %1)
So, the whole block reads (from line 65):
:setupArgs
if “”%1″”==”"”" goto doneStart
if “”%1″”==”"-noclasspath”" goto clearclasspath
if “”%1″”==”"st”" (set ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS=%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS% -Dskip.junit=true) else (set ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS=%ANT_CMD_LINE_ARGS% %1)
shift
goto setupArgs
Now, I can just type
ant all st
