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Gradle Effective Implementation Guide

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Gradle Effective Implementation Guide

Overview of this book

Gradle is the next generation in build automation. It uses convention-over-configuration to provide good defaults, but is also flexible enough to be usable in every situation you encounter in daily development. Build logic is described with a powerful DSL and empowers developers to create reusable and maintainable build logic."Gradle Effective Implementation Guide" is a great introduction and reference for using Gradle. The Gradle build language is explained with hands on code and practical applications. You learn how to apply Gradle in your Java, Scala or Groovy projects, integrate with your favorite IDE and how to integrate with well-known continuous integration servers.Start with the foundations and work your way through hands on examples to build your knowledge of Gradle to skyscraper heights. You will quickly learn the basics of Gradle, how to write tasks, work with files and how to use write build scripts using the Groovy DSL. Then as you develop you will be shown how to use Gradle for Java projects. Compile, package, test and deploy your applications with ease. When you've mastered the simple, move on to the sublime and integrate your code with continuous integration servers and IDEs. By the end of the "Gradle Effective Implementation Guide" you will be able to use Gradle in your daily development. Writing tasks, applying plugins and creating build logic will be second nature.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Gradle Effective Implementation Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Defining dependencies


We learned how to use dependency configurations to group together dependencies; we saw how we must define repositories so dependencies can be resolved, but we haven't yet learned how to define the actual dependencies. We define dependencies in our build project with the dependencies{} script block. We define a closure to pass to the dependencies{} script block, with the configuration of the dependency.

We can define different types of dependencies. The following table shows the types we can use:

Dependency type

Method

Description

External module dependency

-

A dependency on an external module or library in a repository.

Project dependency

project()

Dependency on another Gradle project.

File dependency

files(),

fileTree()

Dependency on a collection of files on the local computer.

Client module dependency

module()

A dependency on an external module where the artifacts are stored in a repository but the meta information about the module is in the...