Is it possible to run a task before running a neotest run?

[carlosflorencio]

Wondering if it's possible with the current plugin version to run a task (e.g builds the project) and only then run the neotest action?

Thanks!

[stevearc]

Should be! There's a component for specifying dependencies for a task, so all you need to do is attach that to your neotest task. There's two ways to do this:

1. Add it to the default_neotest component alias

require("overseer").setup({
  component_aliases = {
    default_neotest = {
      { "dependencies", task_names = {
        { "shell", cmd = "sleep 4" },
      } },
      "default",
    },
  },
})

2. Pass it in to the neotest strategy spec

require("neotest").setup({
  strategies = {
    overseer = {
      components = {
        { "dependencies", task_names = {
          { "shell", cmd = "sleep 4" },
        } },
        "default_neotest",
      },
    },
  },
})

For this second option, you can also define the components as a function, so you can choose at runtime whether to add this dependency or not

require("neotest").setup({
  strategies = {
    overseer = {
      components = function(run_spec)
        return {
          { "dependencies", task_names = {
            { "shell", cmd = "sleep 4" },
          } },
          "default_neotest",
        }
      end,
    },
  },
})

Note that for these last two I pushed up a couple of changes just now, so you'll need to fetch the latest master.

[carlosflorencio]

Will go for the second option because those test dependencies are only required for certain projects (will choose at runtime), you're awesome! Thanks!