Lucee Ant Script Runner (super fast way to run Lucee for CI / tests)

Zackster · June 17, 2021, 1:15pm

You know how Lucee supports the jsr-223 script runner stuff?

Here’s a simple ant project to quickly run Lucee via the command line, awesome for CI stuff, adapted from the Lucee core build

Zackster · June 17, 2021, 4:10pm

I have the Lucee docs build process running using this via a GitHub Action, which saves around 50s from the command box install.

It’s caching all the required Maven packages which also speeds things up, it looks like GitHub is already caching the lucee.jar download locally

github.com

zspitzer/lucee-docs/blob/master/.github/workflows/test.yml#L30


      
          # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it
          - uses: actions/checkout@v2
          - uses: actions/setup-java@v2
            with:
              distribution: 'adopt'
              java-version: '8.0.262'
          
          
- name: Cache Maven packages
            uses: actions/cache@v2
            with:
              path: ~/.m2
              key: lucee-script-runner-maven-cache
          
          
# Runs a single command using the runners shell
          - uses: lucee/script-runner@main
            with:
              webroot: ${{ github.workspace }}
              execute: /build.cfm
              luceeVersion: 5.3.8.206
              # luceeVersion: 5.3.7.48

The main gotcha with this approach is that this (currently) runs the script without using Application.cfc, one alternative solution would be to use the hidden _internalRequest to run the template, which would use the Application.cfc

Here’s an example of the log output from a test job