TIL you can trick IntelliJ into thinking any Gradl...

# kotest-contributors

[Adam S]

TIL you can trick IntelliJ into thinking any Gradle task is a Test task by setting idea.internal.test=true

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/7ea3644a3e0a1532e53032ec66ae7563903dbef3/plugins/gradle/tooling-extension-impl/src/com/intellij/gradle/toolingExtension/impl/model/taskModel/GradleTaskModelBuilder.kt#L53

build.gradle.kts.kt

[Adam S]

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[sam]

I played around with that in my new gradle plugin

[Adam S]

oh cool

[Adam S]

was it useful?

[Adam S]

I think it's a fun trick, but it's not a good idea to rely on an internal feature

[sam]

It uses that to detect if you're running gradle kotest from intellj, or from the command line

[sam]

and uses that to then pick the approrpriate output format (team city or our own cli logger)

[sam]

worst case is they remove it, and you just get standard cli output

[sam]

I'm ready to start putting up PRs for the new gradle kotest task along with the updated intellij plugin that allows you to run individual tests better (can do JS / Android in a future release) along with navigation to nested tests.

[Adam S]

nice!

[Adam S]

I've got something in my pocket for better handling of JS tests, so we don't have to rely on external test libraries

[sam]

ok cool

[sam]

I also put up a demo recently where we didn't use mocha or karma

[sam]

and so it supported nested tests

[sam]

there's a PR open for it but it's more a show and tell than anything that can be merged