Create a new task that runs a program

Question

I need to define a custom tasks that computes the name of a main class and then runs it. I was thinking about something like this

customTask {
  mainClass =          


        

Answer 1

well you can give it a try .. I works fine for me -

lazy val testngRun = inputKey[Unit]("custom run task for testng")

testngRun := {
    val one = (runMain in Compile).fullInput(" org.testng.TestNG -testclass com.pg.acceptance.testcase.PfsLoginServiceTest").evaluated
}

Answer 2

Late answer but you can create new SBT tasks as mentioned in documentation http://www.scala-sbt.org/release/docs/Detailed-Topics/Tasks#defining-a-new-task

You can run any scala code as the task code. Tasks can also take input arguments.

Pretty much powerful IMO.