Does Pants provide OOTB support for declaring depe...
# general
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Does Pants provide OOTB support for declaring dependencies recursively for a directory? 🧵
Say I have
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tests
  BUILD
  - A
     - BUILD
     - test_m1.py
  - B
     - BUILD
     - test_m2.py
if I want to run all tests under the
tests
directory when there's a change to a particular target in the sources, do I need to update every
python_tests
target recursively in the
tests
(or create a macro that would declare that dependency) or is there a way to do this somehow from the
tests/BUILD
only? It would have been possible to use a recursive pattern in the
python_tests
(e.g.
sources=["*/**/test_*.py"]
, but because there is a
BUILD
file in each directory, the tests are already owned.
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If you don’t otherwise are using the dependencies field on you
python_tests
targets, you may get away with
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__defaults__({python_tests: dict(dependencies=["src/proj/file.py"])})