Passing extra compiler options to flexunit ANT task?

Question

Hi,
Is there a way to send any extra compiler options to the <flexunit> ANT task?
I'm using conditional compilation and compilation (mxmlc) is failing from the <flexunit> task:
"Error: Access of undefined property DEBUG.
CONFIG::DEBUG {"
I tried sneaking "-define+=CONFIG::DEBUG,false" in with one of the other compiler options you can set on the <flexunit> task, but that just doesn't work or results in a validation error like this:
"One of the directories specified as a 'testSource' element does not exist."
Let me know if this is possible at all.
Thanks,
Wijnand

Answer 1

Hi Brian,
legrosb wrote:
@Wijnand - Sorry for the belated response.
Not late at all! I think a response within a day on a forum is quite fast!
legrosb wrote:
I thought I had captured this on the wiki, but it looks like I haven't, so thank you for the heads up.
I'll also update the wiki @ http://docs.flexunit.org/index.php?title=Ant_Task to be more detailed regarding compilation so other don't have to dig. 
Did you just do an update on that Wiki page or did I completely miss the part that explained the <flexunit> parameters?
legrosb wrote:
In 4.2, which is super pre-alpha right now, I've added support to accept a series of flex-config.xml files provided by the user.  Not sure if conditional compilation can be tackled with a custom flex-config.xml file, but if so then that'd be the feature that may help you.
Yes, being able to add (+=) a custom config file will solve this problem for me. You can define properties and values like this:
<flex-config>
    <compiler>
        <define>
            <name>CONFIG::DEBUG</name>
            <value>false</value>
        </define>
    </compiler>
<flex-config>
So in your AS code you can use:
CONFIG::DEBUG {
    // Do something that only should be done in debug mode.
I have another question, I ran into this one during testing my SWF with flexunit.
unittest.xml:82: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: command [<testcase classname='com.tuenti.video.unittest.testcase.player::MockPlayerCase' name='loadPlayer' time='0.000'  status='success'/>] not understood
I had a look at the FlexUnitSocketThread.parseInboundMessages method that throws this error and it looks like that your defined END_OF_SUCCESS doesn't entirely match what the SWF is spitting out. They are of by 1 space: END_OF_SUCCESS is defined as: "status=\"success\" />", whereas my SWF spits out the following: "status='success'/>" (single quotes and no space before the closing of the tag).
It looks like I'm not the only one with the ExecutionException as it is reported on StackOverflow as well: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3953677/flexunittasks-error-of-command-not-understood
Cheers,
Wijnand