# AntUnit Task

## AntUnit

### Description

Runs Ant on targets of a build file that follow a certain naming convention. If Ant throws the special subclass of `BuildException` that the `assertTrue` task uses, consider it a failed test. Any other exception is considered a failure. If Ant completes the target without any exception, consider it a passed test.

Tests are specified via ResourceCollections.

All targets whose name starts with "test" (but not if the name is "test" exactly) are considered test cases. If a test build file contains a target named setUp, this gets executed before each test target. If it contains a target named tearDown this gets executed after each test target.

If the test build file contains a target named suiteSetUp, this gets executed before te very first test target (or before the setUp target is executed for the first time). If it contains a target named suiteTearDown this gets executed after the last test target (or tearDown has been executed the last time).

Each test target is run in a fresh Ant project, i.e. each test target has a fresh set of properties and references.

So in a build file with targets setUp, tearDown, test1 and test2, antunit will run two Ant builds. One will run the targets setUp, test1 and tearDown (in that order), the other one will run setUp, test2 and tearDown. The order of those two Ant builds is not defined.

<antunit> also supports AntUnitListeners, i.e. classes that receive notifications on test runs, failures and so one. Currently two implementations of this interface are provided with this Ant library.

Log output during each antunit test case is captured by an instance of the LogCapturer class that is available via a project reference named ant.antunit.log. The published interface of that class is:

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    package org.apache.ant.antunit;

    public class LogCapturer {
        public static final String REFERENCE_ID = "ant.antunit.log";

        /**
         * All messages with logLevel == Project.MSG_ERR.
         */
        public String getErrLog();
        /**
         * All messages with logLevel == Project.MSG_WARN or
         * more severe.
         */
        public String getWarnLog();
        /**
         * All messages with logLevel == Project.MSG_INFO or
         * more severe.
         */
        public String getInfoLog();
        /**
         * All messages with logLevel == Project.MSG_VERBOSE or
         * more severe.
         */
        public String getVerboseLog();
        /**
         * All messages with logLevel == Project.MSG_DEBUG or
         * more severe.
         */
        public String getDebugLog();
    }

Additionally, the contents of the log can be accessed through a LogContent resource.

### Parameters

Attribute | Description | Required
failOnError | Whether to stop the build if one of the tests fails/causes an error. Defaults to true. | No.
errorProperty | Name of the Ant property to set if one of the tests fails/causes an error. Only useful if the failOnError attribute is set to false. | No.
classpathrefid | Specify the classpath to use when running the tests - specified as a reference to an existing path. since AntUnit 1.5 | No.

### Parameters specified as nested elements

#### any file system resource collection

Specifies the build files to run as tests. At least one resource is required.

#### any implementation of AntUnitListener

Creates a test listener that gets attached to the task.

Some listeners are part of this antlib:

- <plainlistener/> creates reports similar to the "plain" <formatter> of the <junit> task.
- <xmllistener/> is similar to the "xml" <formatter>.
- <logforwarder/> forwards log output from the project under test to the project executing the antunit task.

#### propertyset

<propertyset>s can be used to pass properties to the build files under test.

#### reference

One or more references may be passed to the antunit script. For example, paths and filesets can be defined once in the outer build script and passed through to multiple antunit scripts.

Attribute | Description | Required
refid | The reference ID to inherit | Exactly one of these
regex | A regular expression identifying a group of reference IDs to inherit.
torefid | The ID of the reference in the test project. | No. If this reference appears inside a <referenceset> with a nested mapper element, the mapper will be used to determine the target reference ID. Otherwise, defaults to the source reference ID.

#### referenceset

References can be grouped inside a <referenceset> element for clarity. Additionally, <referenceset> elements may contain exactly one nested <mapper> element, which defines how source reference IDs are translated into target reference IDs. For example,

      <au:antunit>
        <referenceset>
          <reference refid="first.ref"/>
          <reference refid="second.ref"/>
          <mapper type="regexp" from="(.*)\.ref" to="mapped.ref.\1"/>
        </referenceset>
      </au:antunit>

#### classpath

Nested path-like structure. Specifies the classpath to use when running the tests. Requires Ant 1.10.13 or later to work properly. since AntUnit 1.5.

### Examples

This build file snippet (from src/etc/testcases/antunit/base.xml)

      <target name="setUp">
        <echo>setup</echo>
      </target>

      <target name="test1">
        <echo>test1</echo>
      </target>

      <target name="test2">
        <echo>test2</echo>
      </target>

      <target name="Xtest3">
        <echo>test3</echo>
      </target>

      <target name="test4">
        <au:assertTrue message="test4 fails">
          <istrue value="false"/>
        </au:assertTrue>
      </target>

      <target name="test5">
        <fail message="test5 exits with error"/>
      </target>

      <target name="testLogCaptureActive">
        <au:assertReferenceSet refid="ant.antunit.log"/>
      </target>

      <target name="test">
        <fail>should be ignored</fail>
      </target>

      <target name="tearDown">
        <echo>tearDown</echo>
      </target>

together with

        <au:antunit>
          <file file="antunit/base.xml"/>
          <au:plainlistener/>
        </au:antunit>

results in output similar to

    [au:antunit] Build File: .../src/etc/testcases/antunit/base.xml
    [au:antunit] Tests run: 5, Failures: 1, Errors: 1, Time elapsed: 0.216 sec
    [au:antunit] Target: test2 took 0.001 sec
    [au:antunit] Target: test1 took 0.001 sec
    [au:antunit] Target: testLogCaptureActive took 0.128 sec
    [au:antunit] Target: test5  caused an ERROR
    [au:antunit]    at line 56, column 45
    [au:antunit]    Message: test5 exits with error
    [au:antunit]    took 0.01 sec
    [au:antunit] Target: test4  FAILED
    [au:antunit]    at line 50, column 42
    [au:antunit]    Message: test4 fails
    [au:antunit]    took 0.003 sec