Mastering Gradle

Mainak Mitra

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783981366
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Informatica
• Subtopic: Programmazione open source

If you are a developer with some experience in build tool and want to become an expert in build tool, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Gradle or any other build tool is essential.

Mastering Gradle

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Table of Contents

Mastering Gradle

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Gradle

Understanding Build Automation System

Need for BAS

Gradle overview

Installation and quick start

Pre-requisites

Gradle for Windows

Gradle for Mac/Linux

The Gradle JVM option

Our first script

Gradle command Line arguments

The Gradle GUI

Start up script

Build life cycle

Initialization

Configuration

Execution

Cache management

Cache location

Change Cache location

Cache features

Reduce the traffic

Dependency location

Version integration

Switching off remote checking

Version conflicts

Gradle with IDE

Installing the Gradle plugin in Eclipse

Working with the Gradle project in IDE

Summary

2. Groovy Essentials for Gradle

Overview

Integration with Java

Minimum code

Simpler I/O operations

Integration with Ant

Builder classes

Closure

Groovy script for Hello World

Data types

String

Dynamic typing in Groovy

Classes, beans, and methods

Control structures

The if-else condition

The switch statement

Loops

Collections

Set

List

Map

Range

Closure

Builder

Summary

3. Managing Task

Build script basics

Task configuration

Task execution

Task dependency

Task ordering

Task operations

Conditional execution

Build optimization

Task rules

Gradle's in-built tasks

The Copy Task

The Rename Task

The Zip task

Custom tasks

Using buildSrc

The standalone task

Summary

4. Plugin Management

The script plugin

The binary plugin

Gradle's in-built plugins

Build and Test plugins

Code analysis plugins

IDE plugins

The Java plugin

Conventions

Configuration

The custom plugin

The build file

The buildSrc directory

The Standalone project

Summary

5. Dependency Management

Overview

Dependency configurations

Dependency types

Repositories

Repositories configuration

Dependency resolution

Transitive dependency

Exclude transitiveness

Selective exclude

Version conflicts

Dynamic dependency

Customizing the dependency

Download file other than JAR

Dependency on files with classifiers

Replacing transitive dependencies

Custom configuration for dependency

Dependency reports

Dependency-specific details

Publishing artifacts

Default artifacts

Custom artifacts

Generate additional XML file along with your JAR file

Generate an additional ZIP file along with your JAR file

Custom configuration

The maven-publish plugins

Publishing to the local-hosted repository

Custom POM

Summary

6. Working with Gradle

The War plugin

The Scala plugin

Logging

File management

Reading files

Writing files

Creating files/directories

File operations

Filter files

Delete files and directories

FileTree

Property management

ext closure

gradle.properties

The command line

The Custom properties file

Multi-project build

The Multi-project structure

The Multi-project execution

Task execution

The Flat hierarchy

Interproject dependency

Configuration-level dependency

Task-level dependency

Library dependency

Partial builds

buildDependents

buildNeeded

Testing with Gradle

JUnit

Test configuration

maxParallelForks

The forkEvery option

ignoreFailures

filter

TestNG

Execution based on group

Execution based on the TestNG suite file

Summary

7. Continuous Integration

Jenkins walk-through

Jenkins installation

Jenkins configuration

Create job

Execute job

Checkstyle and PMD plugins

The Sonar Runner plugin

TeamCity walk-through

Summary

8. Migration

Migration from Ant

Importing Ant file

Accessing properties

Update Ant tasks

Using AntBuilder API

Rewriting to Gradle

Configuration

Migration from Maven

Build filename and project properties

Properties

Dependency management

Exclude transitive

Plugin declaration

Repository configuration

Multi-module declaration

Default values

Gradle init Plugin

Summary

9. Deployment

Role of Gradle in deployment

Docker overview

Installing Docker

Docker commands

Help command

Download image

The list of images

Creating a container

The container list

Start/stop container

Connecting to a container

Deleting a container

Removing an image

Copying files to the container

Container details

Updating DNS settings

Creating an image from a container

Running an application in Docker

Build, Deployment, and Test pipeline

Summary

10. Building Android Applications with Gradle

Creating Android project using Android Studio

Building the Android project with Gradle

buildTypes

ProGuard settings

Build flavors

Running the application on a device/emulator

Signing the release version

Summary

Index

Mastering Gradle

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