Common Tasks

This section of the Pants documentation describes the most common day-to-day Pants tasks, from defining a Python executable to opening up a Scala REPL and much more.

Tasks

General

• List Available Targets
• List All Pants Goals
• Get an Overview of Your Recent Pants Activity
• Add a Dependency on Another Target
• Create an Alias for a Target
• Create a Target Aggregate
• Pass Command-line Arguments to an Executable
• Clean Cached Pants Artifacts
• Run a Binary Target
• Create a Bundled zip or Other Archive
• Create a Resource Bundle
• Use globs to group files
• Access a REPL for a Target
• Generate Code from Thrift Definitions
• Authenticate to a Server

Scala and Java

• Create a New Scala or Java Library Target
• Compile a JVM Target
• Define a JVM Executable
• Specify a File Bundle
• Specify JVM Options
• Define a Test Suite for Scala or Java
• Run JVM binaries and tests with different JVM versions

Python

• Define a Python Library Target
• Build a Python Executable (PEX)
• Specify a Python Test Suite

Testing

• Specify a Test Suite for Your Project
• Run Tests for Your Project