Gradle creating a additional task for int tests-CodePudding

So I found a few tutorials on how to create a seperate task to run integration tests in gradle. My int tests are in a separate folder.. ie src/integrationTest

This is what one of them had set up, I just dont understand the line "val integrationTest by sourceSets.creating"? Is this creating a source set? Other examples have explicit creation of source set in the gradle file..

val integrationTest by sourceSets.creating

dependencies {
    "integrationTestImpl"(project)
}

val integrationTestTask = tasks.register<Test>("integrationTest") {
    description = "Runs the integration tests."
    group = "verification"
    testClassesDirs = integrationTest.output.classesDirs
    classpath = integrationTest.runtimeClasspath
    mustRunAfter(tasks.test)
}
tasks.check {
    dependsOn(integrationTestTask)
}

CodePudding user response：

Yes, it is creating a new source set named integrationTest.

Refer to this answer on Kotlin delegated properties. It is not specific to Gradle, but the Kotlin language itself. Gradle provides a variety of extensions to make the Kotlin DSL a rich experience compared to the Groovy DSL.