Support for the Ceylon programming language

[lucaswerkmeister]

Ceylon is a new JVM-based programming language with focus on readability and a powerful type system (quick introduction). There is an Eclipse plugin for Ceylon, but no direct way to measure coverage – yet. It would be great if EclEmma learned about this plugin’s “Ceylon Java Application” and “Ceylon Test” launch types.

Maybe @gavinking or @davidfestal (Ceylon IDE devs) want to try this?

[lucaswerkmeister]

For the record, getting a jacoco.exec file is quite straightforward, and I didn’t notice any interference of the javaagent with Ceylon (JBoss Modules). See here.

[Godin]

@lucaswerkmeister might be interesting to add an example of Ceylon language into https://github.com/marchof/jacoco-maven-examples

[lucaswerkmeister]

That would probably be useful… but my Maven knowledge is pretty limited. But if you look at my Ant build.xml, you’ll see that I have to jump through some hoops to get the report: Run the tests with a JAVA_OPTS environment variable, unzip the .car files, select the .ceylon files from the source folder (I think I tried it without the **/*.ceylon fileset pattern and it didn’t work). Not sure if that’s possible from Maven (especially the unzipping). Also, the ceylon-maven-plugin was last updated 2012 :-/

You wouldn’t happen to have a jacoco-ant-examples repository somewhere? :D