disable native image building by default

[jimkont]

I started a simple quarkus project mainly following this guide.
The project uses gradle 7.3, JDK 17 and kotlin 17

The problem is that the build step attempts to use GraalVM by default. e.g. when I run ./gradle test it fails with

Execution failed for task ':quarkusBuild'.
> io.quarkus.builder.BuildException: Build failure: Build failed due to errors
        [error]: Build step io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.steps.NativeImageBuildStep#build threw an exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: Cannot find the `native-image` in the GRAALVM_HOME, JAVA_HOME and System PATH. Install it using `gu install native-image`
...

My goal is to port a spring-boot project to quarkus but deal with GraalVM in a later step. is there a way to configure gradle to disable native image building? I could not find any related configuration options in the docs

[quarkus-bot[bot]]

/cc @evanchooly, @geoand

[geoand]

I am not sure what that tutorial does, but Quarkus projects generated by our tooling do not try to build the native image when running tests.

[geoand]

You are welcome :)

[jimkont]

coming back at this issue @geoand . Is there a way to configure Gradle to disable the native image building completely? turns out that other tasks that trigger the gradle verification group task cause the same problem

[geoand]

Not sure. @glefloch do you know?

[jimkont]

we found that setting the default quarkus.package.type configuration explicitly to fat-jardoes the trick here. However, there could be some bug in the gradle plugin that causes this behaviour when it is unspecified, and the default is expected.

[glefloch]

I don't think there is a way to explicitly disable native test. That could a be good option to add.