Grunt Targets

[LeoColomb]

Hi @Bjornej,

It should be super useful (if possible) to recursively get Grunt tasks. Here I mean get sub tasks such as task:subtask, when there are two or more subtasks.

All Grunt tasks should respect the following structure.

{
  taskA: {
    sub1: {
      ...
    },
    sub2: {
      ...
    },
    options: {
      ...
    }
  }
}

Currently taskA is well recognize and added to the Grunt submenu. You may also add sub1, sub2 (options is the common sublist to set options, so not a task) inside a taskA submenu.

What do you think about this? :smiley:

[Bjornej]

Hi @LeoColomb ,

your suggestion is easy to implement and I'll try to have a version ready to try tomorrow but I need some more info as I've not used subtasks much:

• should all properties of the task be used except for options or there are some other common exceptions?
• are subtask only present as first level properties or can be nested?

[LeoColomb]

Referring to the Grunt documentation:

• Only options for properties (#)
• Basically only at the first level.

[LeoColomb]

Just see what I name sub-tasks are actually named targets. More relevant...

[Bjornej]

I've done it. Can you try this version and confirm it's working as you suggested?

[LeoColomb]

Perfect for the parsing behavior. :ok_hand: About how to show this, it could be more impressive to add a submenu. Quick example:

[Bjornej]

It's a nice idea but I'll have to see if I can do it.

Visual studio way to define menus is static and defined in a xml file so I'll have to see if it can be made dynamic in some way.

Let me make some experiments and I'll tell you if it's possible

[LeoColomb]

@Bjornej Thanks! Feel free to submit me some packages to test (and check errors) :smile:

[Bjornej]

I've tried to create the submenus for the multiple targets command but it doesn't seem to be possible with the way menus are defined in visual studio.

I'll change the labels to remove grunt in the submenu and make a last try to implement it. If it doesn't work I''l publish the new feature on visual studio gallery so at least this is available to everyone.

[Bjornej]

I've tried again but I'm not able to dynamically create the submenus.

I've integrated your pull request and solved another bug which didn't allow to use a gruntfile except at the root of the project. If you want to try the prerelease it is here.

Tomorrow I'll make some other tests then publish the updated version on the gallery.

After that I'll close this issue if it's okay with you

[LeoColomb]

OK, perfect. I will also try on my side to do what I suggest when I will have some time. Thanks again!