Question

I am trying to mavenize my grails 2.1 app which uses build-test-data-2.0.3, for some reason it cannot import grails.test.mixin.support.*.

I thought it has something to do with the scopes so I tried different of them but it did not help.

My assumption is grails.test.mixin.support and other requirements are already downloaded with grails core, do I need to add any specific dependency for this plugin ?

Thanks

The error I am getting is:

 package grails.test.mixin.support does not exist

Here is what needs to be done to create the issue:

1- create-app delme

2- adding build-test-plugin

3- create-pom com.company

4- mvn install

This is my dependency in pom:

 <dependency>
    <groupId>org.grails.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>build-test-data</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.3</version>
    <scope>compile</scope>
    <type>zip</type>
</dependency> 

BuildConfig:

plugins {
    runtime ":hibernate:$grailsVersion"
    runtime ":jquery:1.7.2"
    runtime ":resources:1.1.6"

    // Uncomment these (or add new ones) to enable additional resources capabilities
    //runtime ":zipped-resources:1.0"
    //runtime ":cached-resources:1.0"
    //runtime ":yui-minify-resources:0.1.4"

    build ":tomcat:$grailsVersion"

    runtime ":database-migration:1.1"

    compile ':cache:1.0.0'
}

Answer 1

If someone encountered similar issue that maven cannot compile some of the classes this might be helpful to them.

In my case it was some classes used by build-test-data plugin that maven was complaining about. The problem is Maven was not aware of those classes that build-test-data was using in this case it was grails.test.mixin.support.MixinMethod. This is part of the grails-plugin-testing package.

Maven needs to know that so it can put it in the classpath (I assume) and if it cannot find it, will fail to compile it. What I needed to do was just adding that dependency to maven, so maven can put that in the classpath.

Thanks to this respond by jpearlin helped me to resolve this issue.

I added this dependency and the issue was fixed.

        <dependency>
              <groupId>org.grails</groupId>
              <artifactId>grails-plugin-testing</artifactId>
              <version>${grails.version}</version>
              <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>