Thanks Michael, Taher for you thorough answers.
Agreed, when I Googled for "gradle interactive task" the 1st answer was
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/continuous_build.html
That's why I asked "Should we?" :)
Jacques
Le 10/07/2016 à 13:42, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :
Hi Jacques and all,
Michael makes a good point. It is not a very good practice to have user
input in build scripts.
Now, it is easy to create such tasks, and you can even make the input from
a full GUI application if you want to using swing. But the time and effort
to put into these tasks is not worth it for multiple reasons:
1- You cannot automate it
2- The command prompt would have some issues because the gradle status bar
(at the bottom with progress %) might obscure it
3- It is harder to test
4- It blocks! now remember Gradle is a multi-process system. It can execute
tasks in parallel increasing efficiency and throughput. What happens if you
mix commands together? This complicates matters
5- Many other tasks require flags which did not have user input. Take for
example the data loading tasks and the integration testing tasks.
If someone is sophisticated enough to create a new component or a new
tenant in the system I doubt they would need THAT much hand-holding.
Furthermore, everything is thoroughly documented in README.md that it would
take less than a few seconds to copy paste the command and change the flags
to your liking.
Regards,
Taher Alkhateeb
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Michael Brohl <michael.br...@ecomify.de>
wrote:
Hi Jacques,
I think builds should work without interaction on the command line, which
makes automation difficult and is less error prone.
I think it is sufficient to provide the functionality with task
parameters. If one wants interactive wizards, he could provide some for the
project.
Regards,
Michael Brohl
ecomify GmbH
www.ecomify.de
Am 10.07.16 um 12:48 schrieb Jacques Le Roux:
Hi,
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7773 and
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-7772
Opinions (about the question in title: "Should we?")
Thanks
Jacques
