WARNING This repo is no longer maintained. Appcelerator (at some point) removed "titanium login" from their CLI, which is integral to grunt-titanium working. I believe someone noted this was around version 5 of Titanium, but I'm not certain. In any case, grunt-titanium is only really reliable prior to Titanium 5.0.

grunt-titanium

grunt plugin for titanium CLI

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.2

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-titanium --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-titanium');

Prerequisites

grunt-titanium sits on top of your Titanium SDK installation. It won't install the SDK for you. It won't install Android, iOS, etc... for you. Be sure your Titanium environment is setup before trying to use this plugin as part of your development workflow.

The "titanium" or "ti" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named titanium to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  titanium: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.command

Type: String Default value: 'build'

The command to execute with the Titanium CLI.

options.preferGlobal

Type: Boolean Default value: false

If set to true, grunt-titanium will use your globally installed version of titanium to execute the commands. If false (default), it will use the version of titanium included with grunt-titanium's dependencies.

options.args

Type: Array, Default value: []

All the non-flag, non-option arguments to pass to the Titanium CLI. For example, ti sdk select 3.2.0.GA would be created as

grunt.initConfig({
  titanium: {
    all: {
      options: {
        command: 'sdk',
        args: ['select', '3.2.0.GA']
      }
    }
  }
});

options...

The rest of the options and flags are the same as the those available to the Titanium CLI. You can see this list like this by typing titanium help COMMAND_NAME. The options should be named as camel case as opposed to the dashed format used by the CLI, making them easier to use as keys in your options. For example, --build-only becomes buildOnly. More details in the examples below.

flags

Flags like --quiet should be given a boolean value.

grunt.initConfig({
  titanium: {
    all: {
      options: {
        command: 'clean',
        quiet: false
      }
    }
  }
});

The "titanium_run" or "ti_run" task

This task will quickly create a Titanium app, add project files to it, then run it.

Options

options.build

Type: Object Default value: {}

An object full options to be passed to the titanium build command. This option list is identical to how you would pass options in the titanium task.

options.create

Type: Object Default value: {}

An object full options to be passed to the titanium create command. This option list is identical to how you would pass options in the titanium task.

options.dir

Type: String Default value: tmp

The directory in which to store the created project.

options.failure

Type: String|RegExp|Function Default: undefined

Based on the output of the Titanium app, determine if it has failed. This is necessary if you want a run or ti_run task to finish, since Titanium runs indefinitely if there's no intervention or error. Useful for chaining commands together.

Here's the details on each possible usage, where data represents each line of output from Titanium. If the condition is true, the task is considered to have failed.

type	condition	example
String	data.indexOf(String) !== -1	{ failure: 'I failed' }
RegExp	RegExp.test(data)	`{ faillure: /(?:failed
Function	Function(data)	{ failure: function(data) { return data.charAt(0) === '!' } }

Check the Gruntfile.js for more examples of success and failure conditions.

options.name

Type: String

The name of the project to create. If not specified, the name of the grunt target will be used.

option.quiet

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Set to true if you want to make both the create and build process quiet.

options.success

Type: String|RegExp|Function Default: undefined

Based on the output of the Titanium app, determine if it has succeeded. This is necessary if you want a run or ti_run task to finish, since Titanium runs indefinitely if there's no intervention or error. Useful for chaining commands together.

Here's the details on each possible usage, where data represents each line of output from Titanium. If the condition is true, the task is considered to have succeeded.

type	condition	example
String	data.indexOf(String) !== -1	{ success: 'SUCCESS' }
RegExp	RegExp.test(data)	`{ success: /(?:success
Function	Function(data)	{ success: function(data) { return data.charAt(0) === '!' } }

Check the Gruntfile.js for more examples of success and failure conditions.

Usage Examples

There's a few practical usage examples in this repo's Gruntfile.js. Also, ti-mocha's Gruntfile.js uses grunt-titanium to automate the launching of runtime testing. Aside from that, here's a few more examples. Note that grunt-titanium will use sensible defaults for many required CLI parameters.

Create, add files, and run a project

Before getting into the individual command you can run with the titanium task, let's look at the most common use case with titanium_run. Here we will create a new titanium app, add files to it using grunt's file capabilities, then build the app.

grunt.initConfig({
  ti_run: {
    options: {
      build: {
        platform: 'ios'
      }
    },
    myapp: {
      files: {
        'tmp/myapp': ['test/fixtures/myapp/**/*']
      }
    }
  }
});

But the ti-run task tries to make a lot of smart decisions for you, so the above could also be defined as tersely as this:

grunt.initConfig({
  ti_run: {
    myapp: {}
  }
});

or even more tersely:

grunt.initConfig({
  ti_run: ['myapp']
});

For details on the multiple default locations that ti_run will check for files, please read issue #12. Using these locations will make your Gruntfile.js much cleaner.

Create a project

grunt-titanium makes it trivial to add creating a Titanium project to your workflow. Extremely useful for testing. The following would create an app named MyTestApp in the same directory as your Gruntfile.js.

grunt.initConfig({
  titanium: {
    all: {
      options: {
        command: 'create',
        name: 'MyTestApp',
        workspaceDir: '.'
      }
    }
  }
});

Build a project

Let's say we wanted to build an app in a specific location. We could do it like this:

grunt.initConfig({
  titanium: {
    all: {
      options: {
        command: 'build',
        projectDir: '/path/to/project',
        platform: 'ios'
      }
    }
  }
});

Execute arbitrary Titanium CLI commands

Try out some of the Titanium CLI's other commands. grunt-titanium can do anything the CLI can do, so feel free to be inventive. Let's say we have some automated testing and we need to change the current selected Titanium SDK as part of that testing. No problem:

grunt.initConfig({
  titanium: {
    all: {
      options: {
        command: 'sdk',
        args: ['select', '3.2.0.GA']
      }
    }
  }
});

Chaining commands

We can tie multiple commands together. You could create temporary app for testing, run it for android and ios, then clean it afterwards:

var APP_NAME = 'MyTestApp';
grunt.initConfig({
  titanium: {
    create: {
      options: {
        command: 'create',
        name: APP_NAME,
        workspaceDir: '.'
      }
    },
    build_ios: {
      options: {
        command: 'build',
        projectDir: './' + APP_NAME,
        platform: 'ios',
        buildOnly: true
      }
    },
    build_android: {
      options: {
        command: 'build',
        projectDir: './' + APP_NAME,
        platform: 'android'
        buildOnly: true
      }
    },
    clean: {
      options: {
        command: 'clean',
        projectDir: './' + APP_NAME
      }
    }
  }
});

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Testing

grunt --force

In order to properly test this repo, you must use the --force flag with grunt since we need to test a failing task condition. This means that the message:

Done, but with warnings.

at the end means everything worked. The warnings are expected and are part of the testing suite.