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Gradle Watch Plugin

License: Apache License 2.0

Groovy 50.34% Java 49.66%

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gradle-watch-plugin's Issues

Build announcements

When the build was finished, I want to send local announcements.

Startup progress logging

I will improve startup progress logging.

Could not find property 'sourceSets' on root project

When I try to run the watch task, I receive the following error:

Could not find property 'sourceSets' on root project

I checked my code and everything seems like it should be working correctly... Any advice?

Problems pinging owner of lock '-536096115959651581' at port: 57028

AILURE: Build failed with an exception.

What went wrong:
A problem occurred configuring root project 'spring-view-demo'.

Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':classpath'.
Problems pinging owner of lock '-536096115959651581' at port: 57028
Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

I try to start jettyRun and watch task together. But I got this error no matter which one start first.

Did anyone meet the same problem before?

This happened recently, never meet this before.

Background Mode

Is there anyway to have a background mode? Or maybe add a task to be executed when the watch plugin starts?

I'm trying to use it with another plugin (ratpack) that does not hand off control, similar to this plugin. Been trying to figure out how to do either:
a. Tell watch to run a task after it the task has started. For example:

watch {
  //configuration
 startAtEnd = "someOtherTask"
}

b. Tell watch to go to background mode:

watch {
  // configuration
  background = true
}

Script properties are only retained if they have a value

Is it by design, that local properties have to have a value in your plugin? If I just do gradle -PmyLocalProperty task gradle itself says that hasProperty("myLocalProperty") is true …

https://github.com/bluepapa32/gradle-watch-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/com/bluepapa32/gradle/plugins/watch/WatchTargetTaskRunner.java#L124

Retain script properties in executed tasks

When I'm starting the watch task with gradle watch -Pfoo=bar I'd expect that any tasks that are triggered by a file change also have a foo property with the value bar.

DefaultFileTreeElement constructor changed in Gradle 1.12

Watch plugin doesn't work with Gradle 1.12. As soon as it detects a change, it gives the following stack trace:

org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:watch'.
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:69)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:46)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.execute(PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.java:35)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:64)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:58)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:42)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:53)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask.executeWithoutThrowingTaskFailure(AbstractTask.java:289)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.executeTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:79)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:63)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:51)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.process(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:23)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:86)
    at org.gradle.execution.SelectedTaskExecutionAction.execute(SelectedTaskExecutionAction.java:29)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:61)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.access$200(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:23)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter$2.proceed(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:67)
    at org.gradle.execution.DryRunBuildExecutionAction.execute(DryRunBuildExecutionAction.java:32)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:61)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:54)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:166)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:113)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:81)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter$DefaultBuildController.run(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:64)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:33)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:24)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:35)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:26)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:50)
    at org.gradle.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:171)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:201)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:174)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:170)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:139)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33)
    at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22)
    at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:46)
    at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45)
    at org.gradle.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:37)
    at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:50)
    at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:32)
    at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:23)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gradle.api.internal.file.DefaultFileTreeElement.<init>(Ljava/io/File;Lorg/gradle/api/file/RelativePath;)V
    at com.bluepapa32.gradle.plugins.watch.WatchTarget.isTarget(WatchTarget.java:91)
    at com.bluepapa32.gradle.plugins.watch.WatchTask.addWatchTarget(WatchTask.java:184)
    at com.bluepapa32.gradle.plugins.watch.WatchTask.watch(WatchTask.java:141)
    at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:63)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.doExecute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:219)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:212)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:201)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$TaskActionWrapper.execute(AbstractTask.java:533)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$TaskActionWrapper.execute(AbstractTask.java:516)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeAction(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:80)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:61)
    ... 43 more

See gradle/gradle@12ec65b

Launching an extra daemon process and wasting a lot of memory

This plugin is launching an extra daemon process...
I tried using org.gradle.daemon=false and gradle --no-daemon and the result is the same:

I end up with 3 java processes: 2 daemon and 1 that is the actual watch task.

My watch task is a simple Copy task, and I'm using watch v0.1.5
This is wasting a lot of resources!

@bluepapa32 can you confirm this?

Possible to include multiple file extensions to watch?

Something along the lines of this:

resources {
  files fileTree(dir: 'src/main/resources',
                       include: '**/*.html',
                       include: '**/*.css',)
        tasks 'processResources'
}

Please publish to http://plugins.gradle.org

More people could find out about it.

Using from separate file

Cool plugin. Thanks!

I'm not sure if this is the 'gradle way', but if I wanted to configure this in a separate file, this is what I have to do:

in build.gradle:

apply from: 'watch.gradle'

and in watch.gradle:

import com.bluepapa32.gradle.plugins.watch.WatchPlugin

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url "...internal maven repo..."
        }
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.bluepapa32:gradle-watch-plugin:0.1.4'
    }
}

apply plugin: WatchPlugin

watch {
    custom {
        files files('src/main/static')
        tasks 'applicationJavascript'
    }
}

If you notice, I had to import the WatchPlugin class and apply it that way.
Not sure if this is an issue you need to worry about, but in case people wanted to separate out this config... is there a better way? or a more idiomatic gradle way?

Colorized log message

When Gradle is run on console, I want to output colorized messages.

Consider publishing to Maven Central or JCenter

Great plugin, thanks very much for making it available. There is one annoyance, though.

We try to store all dependencies in a local Artifactory instance, which is set up to mirror Maven Central, JCenter and a few other major repos out there. As this plugin doesn't publish to those, I have several options, none of which are very appealing:

Leave the custom repo url in the build file and have the plugin downloaded directly by each user, rather than being cached.
Add a cached repo in artifactory just for this plugin. This starts to suck after a while if every single dependency that you need requires having to create a separate cached repo.
Download the plugin and upload it to artifactory manually every time a new version comes out.

I think publishing to JCenter is a bit less cumbersome than publishing to Maven Central, and Gradle 1.7 added a specific JCenter function to make grabbing stuff from there easy. Either of those would make our lives a fair bit easier.

Thanks

Provide possibility to define more than one watcher task

This would allow for example to have one compile watching task that compiles on a change in a source dir and additionally have a watching test tasks that runs compile and test on a change. You simply start whatever task you need. To put it more abstract: it would allow having multiple watcher tasks with overlapping watched dirs. :)

You could provide a default task 'watch' (as it is currently) and configure the task directly and not via a project extension. And a user could just create an additional task with other WatchTarget's

watch {
    java {
        files files('src/main/java')
        tasks 'compileJava'
    }
}

testWatch {
    java {
        files files('src/main/java')
        tasks 'check'
    }
}

Is this plugin dead? Any alternatives?

Is this plug-in still actively maintained? If not, what are the alternatives or is a fork more current? There haven't been any comments from the developer on open issues. And PR are not merged either. This really is too bad, since it is a very helpful plugin!

Plugin broken with Gradle 2.6

Gradle 2.5 is still working!

 gradle watch --stacktrace
:watch
Starting:watch FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':watch'.
> org.gradle.tooling.BuildLauncher.withArguments([Ljava/lang/String;)Lorg/gradle/tooling/BuildLauncher;

* Try:
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

* Exception is:
org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':watch'.
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:69)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:46)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.execute(PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.java:35)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:64)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:58)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:52)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:53)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:203)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:185)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:62)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:50)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.process(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:25)
    at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:110)
    at org.gradle.execution.SelectedTaskExecutionAction.execute(SelectedTaskExecutionAction.java:37)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:37)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.access$000(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:23)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter$1.proceed(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:43)
    at org.gradle.execution.DryRunBuildExecutionAction.execute(DryRunBuildExecutionAction.java:32)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:37)
    at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:30)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$4.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:158)
    at org.gradle.internal.Factories$1.create(Factories.java:22)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:90)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:52)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:155)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.access$200(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:36)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$1.create(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:103)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$1.create(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:97)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:90)
    at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:62)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:97)
    at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:86)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter$DefaultBuildController.run(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:102)
    at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ExecuteBuildActionRunner.run(ExecuteBuildActionRunner.java:28)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ChainingBuildActionRunner.run(ChainingBuildActionRunner.java:35)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:47)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:32)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.execute(ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.java:77)
    at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.execute(ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.java:47)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ExecuteBuild.doBuild(ExecuteBuild.java:52)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.WatchForDisconnection.execute(WatchForDisconnection.java:37)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ResetDeprecationLogger.execute(ResetDeprecationLogger.java:26)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.RequestStopIfSingleUsedDaemon.execute(RequestStopIfSingleUsedDaemon.java:34)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput$2.call(ForwardClientInput.java:74)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput$2.call(ForwardClientInput.java:72)
    at org.gradle.util.Swapper.swap(Swapper.java:38)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.ForwardClientInput.execute(ForwardClientInput.java:72)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.health.DaemonHealthTracker.execute(DaemonHealthTracker.java:47)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.LogToClient.doBuild(LogToClient.java:66)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.EstablishBuildEnvironment.doBuild(EstablishBuildEnvironment.java:71)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.BuildCommandOnly.execute(BuildCommandOnly.java:36)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.health.HintGCAfterBuild.execute(HintGCAfterBuild.java:41)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.api.DaemonCommandExecution.proceed(DaemonCommandExecution.java:120)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.exec.StartBuildOrRespondWithBusy$1.run(StartBuildOrRespondWithBusy.java:50)
    at org.gradle.launcher.daemon.server.DaemonStateCoordinator$1.run(DaemonStateCoordinator.java:246)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:54)
    at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.StoppableExecutorImpl$1.run(StoppableExecutorImpl.java:40)
Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gradle.tooling.BuildLauncher.withArguments([Ljava/lang/String;)Lorg/gradle/tooling/BuildLauncher;
    at com.bluepapa32.gradle.plugins.watch.WatchTargetTaskRunner.<init>(WatchTargetTaskRunner.java:58)
    at com.bluepapa32.gradle.plugins.watch.WatchTask.watch(WatchTask.java:57)
    at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:75)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.doExecute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:226)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:219)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory$StandardTaskAction.execute(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:208)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$TaskActionWrapper.execute(AbstractTask.java:585)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$TaskActionWrapper.execute(AbstractTask.java:568)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeAction(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:80)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:61)
    ... 68 more


BUILD FAILED

task running twice

The task appears to be running twice:

Test case
simple class

package com.atomi.examples.generics;

public class BasicGenerics
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.out.print("test");
    }
}

gradle.build

plugins {
  id 'application'
  id 'com.bluepapa32.watch' version '0.1.5'
}


version = '1.0'

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

sourceSets {
  main {
    java {
      srcDir 'src'
    }
  }
}

watch {
  java {
    files files('src')
    tasks 'run'
  }
}


mainClassName = "com.atomi.examples.generics.BasicGenerics"

versions:

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 2.2.1
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2014-11-24 09:45:35 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     6fcb59c06f43a4e6b1bcb401f7686a8601a1fb4a

Groovy:       2.3.6
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013
JVM:          1.8.0_45 (Oracle Corporation 25.45-b02)
OS:           Windows 8.1 6.3 amd64

Get path of changed file/dir

Hi,

first of all, great plugin!
Is there a any way to get the path of the changed file?
I want to do incremental builds, invoking task for all files takes too much time.

Example: I'm compiling LESS files and compressing them with gzip every time the file changes.