hello, giving it a go to Pants 2.9.0rc3 with the JVM support and I have a couple of questions which I don’t know if they are planned for final 2.9.0 or future releases: 1. Is there a way to pass JVM parameters while running ScalaTest tests? What I’m looking for is an equivalent to SBT’s

Test / javaOptions := List(…)

as we have some tests that require some specific JVM arguments (i.e. allowing reflective access to some Java 11 packages) in order to pass. The

[scalatest].args

section in

pants.toml

seems to be only for passing arguments to ScalaTest, not to the underlying JVM 2. We have some tests that need to load some files when running and they try to access them via the classpath but using a

resource

target as a dependency in the

scalatest_tests

target seems to be unsupported. Pants complains that the

resource

target should have a

resolve

or

compatible_resolves

field, but that field is also unsupported in the

resource

target. Is there a workaround for this that you may be aware or does it need to be implemented in a future release?

Hello! For #2, resources support was merged yesterday: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/13908 @witty-crayon-22786 should that be cherry-picked?

amazing, almost every time I think I need something, you guys have just merged it or about to ✌️

So true! @witty-family-13337 would it be okay to tweet a quote of that? Without without attribution, whichever you prefer. No pressure, of course. It's just a common enough experience that I think readers will relate. :-)

yeah sure, you can quote it, I don't mind attribution although it's not a very “original” piece of literature 😅

yea, let’s cherry-pick the

resource

change! that’s a glaring omission

hi, sorry for late reply. The options I don't think they are a big blocker

yea. i think that that might connect to some other work we’re planning. thanks!

but even nowadays we can't do that, with SBT we have to apply them to all the tests in the same submodule, and SBT submodules are coarser than pants targets

2.9.0rc4 supports `resources`: https://github.com/pantsbuild/example-jvm/pull/3