I can’t seem to be able to enable logging for Kotest :confused: Any idea what I may be missing? I wa...

# kotest

[wasyl]

I can’t seem to be able to enable logging for Kotest 😕 Any idea what I may be missing? I want to see logs in console when running tasks, I tried:
• setting systemProp.KOTEST_DEBUG=true in gradle.properties
• tasks.withType(Test) { systemProperty("KOTEST_DEBUG", true) }
• exporting KOTEST_DEBUG env variable in console
• passing -DKOTEST_DEBUG=true in ./gradlew params

[wasyl]

Tests definitely run as I also have outputs.upToDateWhen { false } for them, also I see them running

[sam]

I couldn't get it to work yesterday either, it seems to sometimes pass sys props through and other times not

[sam]

if you can do export KOTEST_DEBUG=true then it should set that env in all forked processes too

[wasyl]

Shoot, that’s why you just changed enabled() = true? 😄
I did export KOTEST_DEBUG, no luck 😞

[sam]

yes that's why I changed it when I was testing lol

[sam]

it still didn't work properly

[sam]

I think gradle is just not logging the output, rather than the flag not being set

[sam]

gradle is capturing std out and is suopposed to be redirecting it to the file

[sam]

And you need all this too

[sam]

tasks.named<Test>("jvmTest") {
   useJUnitPlatform()
   filter {
      isFailOnNoMatchingTests = false
   }
   testLogging {
      showExceptions = true
      showStandardStreams = true
      events = setOf(TestLogEvent.FAILED, TestLogEvent.PASSED)
      exceptionFormat = TestExceptionFormat.FULL
   }
}

[wasyl]

showStandardStreams = true that’s the fix, I think Gradle starts redirecting System.out as soon as test task starts 🙄

[sam]

does it work now ?

[wasyl]

Yep 🙂 This is enough:

allprojects {
  tasks.withType(Test) {
    systemProperty("KOTEST_DEBUG", true)
    testLogging {
      showStandardStreams = true
    }
  }
}

[sam]

perf

[sam]

should update the docs

[wasyl]

I wonder if you can somehow get ahold of the real system out 🤔

[sam]

gradle is a funny bastard, doesn't like you doing lots of things

[sam]

had loads of issues writing the kotest gradle plugin

[wasyl]

Fyi there’s Gradle Community Slack which is quite active 🙂 Useful if you’re stumped on some Gradle stuff and need to ask for guidance

[sam]

oh I didn't know that