Gradle plugin demo where the functional tests have no access to the plugin or the testing project classpath

Functionality description:

This plugin accepts a configuration of the following form and echoes the contents of the specified file in the Standard output.

echofiletask{
    filePath = "echo.me"
}

Build plugin:

./gradlew build

Structure details:

Folder plugin

• The plugin folder contains the implementation logic of the plugin.
• The main folder contains hte main implementation logic
• The test folder contains Unit tests for the various modules of the plugin
• The functionalTest folder contains tests that invoke a GradleRunner and test the total result of the plugin application.

Notes

1. It is important to note that in the test folder we cannot instantiate the Tasks that we create and therefore we can only test logic that is connected to the project structure, i.e., whatever one can define withing the files build.gradle and settings.gradle. If the plugin task interacts with some project files (of the testing project), we can test such interactions with the functional tests.

2.Given the current setup, it is not possible for the functional tests to have access to the classpath of the main or the test folder. That is to say, the functional tests observe only the results of the build that is run by the GradeRunner

Folder testingProject

This folder contains a separate and independent project that is copied during the functional tests to a temporary folder and GradleRunner runs on this temporary folder. It is necessary to inject a settings.gradle file and it is possible to inject any other file that is necessary for the functional tests.

Notes

1. No other module or code in any of the plugin folders have access to the classpath of the testingProject. Dependency to the testingProject's classpath seems very difficult to accomplish without having synchronization problems.
2. The testingProject is connected to the plugin through the configuration of its settings.file and can be run normally as an independent project, gradle build is run inside the testingProject

General Notes:

This implementation is based on the default Gradle plugin setup.