lein-cascade

A Leiningen plugin to execute cascading task dependencies. This is vaguely similar to Makefiles and Ant target dependencies.

Installation

You must have Leiningen 2.0 or higher to use this plugin.

Use this for user-level plugins:

Put [lein-cascade "0.1.2"] into the :plugins vector of your :user profile.

Use this for project-level plugins:

Put [lein-cascade "0.1.2"] into the :plugins vector of your project.clj.

Usage

Add a :cascade key in your project.clj - example below:

;; Inner vectors contain task name and args if any, non-vector is a dependency
:cascade {"foo"  [["clean"]]
          "bar"  ["foo"      ; triggers "foo"
                  ["javac"]]
          "baz"  ["bar"      ; triggers "bar"
                  ["test"]]
          "quux" ["bar"      ; triggers "bar"
                  ["doc"]    ; codox plugin example
                  ["uberjar"]]}

You can execute a cascade as follows:

$ lein cascade quux

Cascade name types

String cascade names are public, whereas keyword cascade names are internal. Symbols are special. See below:

• Symbol - Environment variables and command-line args
• String - Public cascade targets visible from command-line
• Keyword - Internal cascade targets not visible from command-line

Symbols

Symbols have a special meaning. They are looked up as environment variables. For example: ["with-profile" "foo" "test" TESTNS] expects TESTNS to be an environment variable, which must be present at runtime. If no such environment variable exists, an error message would be shown.

The special symbols %, %<integer> and %& are substituted by the command line arguments. For example in lein cascade foo bar baz, % and %1 are bar and %2 is baz.

License

Copyright © 2013-2014 Shantanu Kumar

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.