Run unit tests without building wars, ears, etc?

Hello Erik,

Hi all,

Short question: when I run my unit tests, IntelliJ starts to build all
kind of artifacts, like wars, ears, etc. How can I prevent this from
happening? It's very time consuming, and even happens when no changes
have been made to the class files (like running a different test in a
unit test)

Probably your test run configuration has Before launch / Make option = On.
You can set it Off.

Another story is that when nothing is modified under your source roots, Make
should just output "All files are up-to-date" and do nothing more. For me
it does so. E.g. I have one web facet with the option to generate a .war
and include compiled classes. When java files are up-to-date, make does not
repack the .war. Is it different for you with similar project layout?

Alexander.

Hi Alexander,

Like I mentioned in my previous post, I have Make option turned on. When I turn it off, my classes do not get compiled. The annoyance is that when I change something in my production code, IntelliJ will regenerate all my war's, ears, etc, copy all my dependencies, resources, etc, which just takes a long time! I'd like to make a code change, run a unit test, and continue. Now it's run a unit test, wait untill all the wars etc have been created (which can take somewhere between 15 seconds and a minute), and continue. When all my Java files are up to date, this doesn't happen, but why should I run my unit tests if I didn't change anything, and why should I want a .war file when I'm only running the tests?

I'd like to have a split between 'make' and 'compile', so that when I run my tests, my code gets compiled, but my project isn't 'maked/made'. This would save me really a lot of time!

On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:06:03 +0200, Erik Pragt <no_reply@jetbrains.com>
wrote:

Hi Alexander,

>

Like I mentioned in my previous post, I have Make option turned on. When
I turn it off, my classes do not get compiled. The annoyance is that
when I change something in my production code, IntelliJ will regenerate
all my war's, ears, etc, copy all my dependencies, resources, etc, which
just takes a long time! I'd like to make a code change, run a unit test,
and continue. Now it's run a unit test, wait untill all the wars etc
have been created (which can take somewhere between 15 seconds and a
minute), and continue. When all my Java files are up to date, this
doesn't happen, but why should I run my unit tests if I didn't change
anything, and why should I want a .war file when I'm only running the
tests?

>

I'd like to have a split between 'make' and 'compile', so that when I
run my tests, my code gets compiled, but my project isn't 'maked/made'.
This would save me really a lot of time!

From facet JavaEE (ear) and Web (war) you can go to Java EE Build Settings
and turn off creation of ear/war.

Hi Ronny,

I thought of that, but I'm using the ears, since I'm running JBoss from within IntelliJ. Without the ears/wars it's not really handy.. And maybe if it would have been one project, I could turn it on/off, but I have more than 30 modules, of which 3 ears and 5 wars + 5 EJB packages, and I'm not going to turn each of them on/off during each test run! I'm just suprised that there seems to be no easy way to toggle them off. I'm also surprised that IntelliJ creates the war/ears when running Unit tests, but that might be handy for some, I'm not sure. If there's not option to turn it off, I'm creating a JIRA. Jetbrains, any suggestions on this?

On Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:05:18 +0200, Erik Pragt <no_reply@jetbrains.com>
wrote:

And maybe if it would have been one project, I could turn it on/off, but
I have more than 30 modules, of which 3 ears and 5 wars + 5 EJB
packages, and I'm not going to turn each of them on/off during each test
run! I'm just suprised that there seems to be no easy way to toggle them
off.

There really should be a way to tell IDEA not to create ears/wars during
test runs.
However, in the newest Diana EAP each Facet type now has a "All Facet" tab
where you can turn on and off creation of ears/wars for all Facets of a
given type. That might help you.

Hello Erik,

EP> I'm just suprised that there seems to be no easy way to
EP> toggle them off. I'm also surprised that IntelliJ creates the
EP> war/ears when running Unit tests, but that might be handy for some,
EP> I'm not sure. If there's not option to turn it off, I'm creating a
EP> JIRA. Jetbrains, any suggestions on this?

I'm in the same boat, I have to agree it's annoying and time consuming. I'd
say the war/ear building should be tied to the deployment step, so I'd rather
have that performed only before deploying/running the app server run config.

Maybe "make" should be split in a compile make and an j2ee-make (that would
include the normal make plus j2ee validation and packaging). Then one would
be able to set the first for the unit test run configs (or other non-j2ee
run configs) while the full thing is tied to j2ee run configs.

My 2c,
Andrei

P.S. Please post the jira number here, so we can vote for it.

Hi all,

I just created the jira for it, I was just wondering if I missed something before creating one. You can vote here:

http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEA-19557