Imports should not be compiled

[hlascelles]

Great plugin... but I'm having trouble with imports.

I have two files thus:

baseline.less
forms.less

Baseline declares a variable @baseline and imports forms with @import "forms.less";

less-sbt compiles baseline.less just fine.

But then immediately afterwards, less-sbt tries to compile forms.less which has no reference to @baseline and it tanks.

Lift/compile:less: error occured while compiling /less/forms.less: variable @baseline is undefined

I tried moving the imports to another dir and rereferencing, but then baseline won't compile. Is there a way to exclude compilation of imports?

A great project to try this on is twitter bootstrap.

Thanks!

[hlascelles]

Ah, just seen the settings section, trying it now...

[hlascelles]

Filters worked, but includes don't... Am getting:

Lift/compile:less: error occured while compiling /less/bootstrap.less: TypeError: Cannot call method "slice" of undefined (less-rhino-1.1.3.js#2404)

Using: sbt 0.11.0

Thanks for any guidance!

[softprops]

Hey thanks for reporting to this. I try to get to it tonight.

[softprops]

@hlascelles would you mind cloning this locally and doing a publish local to see if these changes fix your build. The version should now be @ 0.1.2-SNAPSHOT so update your projects plugin def after publishing locally.

I wrote a scripted test should should test that imports work. The test is basically that I have a a.less file which imports a variale from b.less and assert it gets properly injected. I also don't think it hurts to have b.less included but if you wanted to exclude it. use

(LessKeys.excludeFilter in (Compile, LessKeys.less)) ~= { ff => ff || "b.less" }

If you were curious ~= augments an existing setting. So here I am saying take the original filter and add an or condition of the file I want to exclude.

See https://github.com/softprops/less-sbt/blob/master/src/sbt-test/less-sbt/imports/build.sbt#L3 for what I mean.

If this fixes your build, I'll do a 0.1.2 release

[dimensia]

I am seeing this issue as well. For now I just copied all the data from my include file into the main file and it seems to work.

[softprops]

Did either of you try my fix yet? I have a scripted test for this use case which I thinks fixes the issue but I'd like to get one of you guys to do a publish local to see if it fixes your specific issue before I do another release

You can see the test project at

https://github.com/softprops/less-sbt/tree/master/src/sbt-test/less-sbt/imports

My test case was simple, I had a.less import a property from b.less and then validated that what was generated was what I expected

https://github.com/softprops/less-sbt/blob/master/src/sbt-test/less-sbt/imports/src/main/less/a.less

Confirmation on whether this fix helps your issues would help my confidence in pushing the fix in a new release.

[dimensia]

I just tried 0.1.2-SNAPSHOT and it worked for me.

[softprops]

Okay thanks @dimensia. Thanks for testing. I'll push an 0.1.2 release tomorrow

[softprops]

published http://implicit.ly/less-sbt-012