grunt-sauce-connect-launcher

Grunt plug-in to download and launch an instance of Sauce Labs Sauce Connect.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-sauce-connect-launcher --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sauce-connect-launcher');

The "sauce_connect" multi-task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named sauce_connect to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  sauce_connect: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.username

Type: String Default value: ``

options.accessKey

Type: String Default value: ``

options.port

Type: String | Number Default value: ``

options.proxy

Type: String Default value: ``

options.directDomains

Type: String | Array<String> Default value: ``

options.fastFailRegexps

Type: String | Array<String> Default value: ``

options.logfile

Type: String Default value: ``

options.tunnelIdentifier

Type: String Default value: ``

options.verbose

Type: Boolean Default value: false

options.logger

Type: Function Default value: grunt.verbose.writeln

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  sauce_connect: {
    your_target: {
      options: {
        username: 'demo',
        accessKey: '12345678-1234-1234-1234-1234567890ab',
      },
    },
  },
});

The "sauce-connect-close" task

Overview

This task can be used to ensure that the currently opened Sauce Connect tunnel gets closed and that the related Sauce Connect machine is shut down.

Usage Examples

grunt.registerTask('test', [
    'default',
    'sauce_connect:your_target',
    'sauce-connect-close'
]);

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• v0.3.0 - Update to sauce-connect-launcher~0.4.0. Fixes issue #1. More details here.
• v0.2.1 - Simplified the way to obtain running Sauce Connect machines via ?full=1 parameter when requesting the tunnel list.
• v0.2.0 - Ensure closing existing Sauce Connect tunnel (and related machine) before opening a new tunnel.
• v0.1.1 - No code changes. Unpublished v0.1.0 as npm publish leaked a local user.json with credentials.
• v0.1.0 - Initial commit.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Steffen Eckardt. Licensed under the MIT license.