Gradle Goodness Notebook

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Introduction

1. Gradle versions
2. Code samples

Configuration

1. Changing the Project Name
2. Changing Name of Default Build File
3. Display Gradle Information in the Build
4. Setting Global Properties For All Gradle Builds
5. Using Properties for Multiple Environments or Profiles
6. Define System Properties in gradle.properties File
7. Changing the Gradle User Home Directory
8. Set Project Version In Version Catalog
9. Different Ways to Set Project Properties
10. Setting Plugin Version From Property In Plugins Section
11. Using System Properties Lazily
12. Using Environment Variables Lazily
13. Shared Configuration With Conventions Plugin
14. Custom Plugin Repositories With Plugins DSL
15. Get Property Value With findProperty
16. Lazy Project Property Evaluation
17. Change Local Build Cache Directory
18. Enable Build Cache For All Builds
19. Using Objects for Version
20. Build Script Using Java Syntax
21. Check Operating System In Build Scripts
22. Creation Rules For Rule Based Model Configuration Using Model DSL

Tasks

1. Get User Input Values From Console
2. Organizing Tasks Using The Task Container
3. Group Similar Tasks
4. Adding Tasks to a Predefined Group
5. Getting Information About Buildscript Dependencies
6. Create Properties File With WriteProperties Task
7. Add Incremental Build Support to Tasks
8. Add Incremental Build Support to Custom Tasks with Annotations
9. Using Incremental Task Action
10. Command Line Options For Custom Tasks
11. Enable Task Based On Offline Command Line Argument
12. Set Task Values with Project Convention
13. Methods Generated For Setting Task Properties
14. Lazy Task Properties
15. Adding Custom Extension To Tasks
16. Use Command Line Options With Custom Tasks
17. Automatic Clean Tasks
18. Parse Files with SimpleTemplateEngine in Copy Task
19. Copy Files with Filtering
20. Renaming Files while Copying
21. Using CopySpec with Tasks
22. Handle Copying Duplicate Files
23. Replace Files In Archives
24. Working with Live Task Collection
25. Unpacking an Archive
26. Create Checksums for Archives
27. Skip Task When Input Empty Using @SkipWhenEmpty Annotation
28. Inter-Project Artifact Dependencies
29. Adding Task With Rule Based Model Configuration
30. Using Optional Ant Task in Gradle

Command line

1. Execute Tasks with Abbreviations
2. Pass Command-line Arguments to Build Script
3. Run a Build Script With a Different Name
4. Excluding Tasks for Execution
5. Display Available Tasks
6. Getting More Help For a Task
7. Using Continuous Build Feature
8. Only Show All Tasks In A Group
9. Check Task Dependencies With a Dry Run
10. Skip Building Project Dependencies
11. Continue Build Even with Failed Tasks
12. Run Task Ignoring Up-to-date Checks
13. Rerun Incremental Tasks At Specific Intervals
14. Profiling Information
15. Stop Build After One Failing Test
16. Use gradlew for Easy Gradle Execution
17. Change Gradle Wrapper Script Name
18. Specify Wrapper Version and Distribution Type From Command Line
19. Check The Gradle Daemon Status

Java and Groovy

1. Set Java Version Compatibility
2. Set Java Compiler Encoding
3. Enabling Preview Features For Java
4. Using Maven Toolchains Configuration For Gradle Java Toolchain Resolution
5. Java Toolchain Configuration Using User Defined Java Locations
6. Using Gradle for a Mixed Java and Groovy Project
7. A Groovy Multi-project with Gradle
8. Run Java Application From Build Script
9. Running Java Applications from External Dependency
10. Pass Java System Properties To Java Tasks
11. Add Support For "Scratch" Files To Java Project
12. Running Groovy Scripts as Application
13. Alter Start Scripts from Application Plugin
14. Running Groovy Scripts Like From Groovy Command Line
15. Generate Javadoc In HTML5
16. Create JAR Artifact with Test Code for Java Project
17. Add Filtering to ProcessResources Tasks
18. Use Groovy Ruleset File with Code Quality Plugin
19. Don't Let CodeNarc Violations Fail the Build

Managing Dependencies

1. Shortcut Notation for Dependencies
2. Display Dependencies for a Gradle Build
3. Getting More Dependency Insight
4. Exclude Transitive Dependency from All Configurations
5. Adding Dependencies Only for Packaging to War
6. Manage Dependency Versions With Dependency Constraints
7. Use bill of materials (BOM) As Dependency Constraints
8. Defining Plugin Versions Using Version Catalog
9. Grouping Version Catalog Dependencies Into Bundles
10. Publish Version Catalog For Sharing Between Projects

Testing Support

1. Running a Single Test
2. Running Tests in Parallel
3. Running All Tests From One Package
4. Configure Test Task With JVM Test Suite
5. Set Test Framework Version Using Version Catalog With JVM Test Suite Plugin
6. Using Spock With JVM Test Suite Plugin
7. Add Extra Dependencies For Running Tests Using JVM Test Suite Plugin
8. Show Standard Out or Error Output from Tests
9. Show More Information About Failed Tests
10. Specify Spock As Test Framework At Initialization
11. Continuous Testing For Java Projects

IDE

1. Delegate Build And Run Actions To Gradle In IntelliJ IDEA
2. Passing Environment Variable Via Delegate Run Action In IntelliJ IDEA
3. Customize IDEA Project File Generation
4. Download Javadoc Files For Dependencies In IDE
5. Create Shortcut Key To Refresh Gradle Projects In IntellIJ IDEA
6. Quickly Open Test Report in IntelliJ IDEA
7. Add Spring Facet To IntelliJ IDEA Module
8. Configure IntelliJ IDEA To Use Gradle As Testrunner
9. Enable Compiler Annotation Processing For IntelliJ IDEA
10. Set VCS For IntelliJ IDEA In Build File
11. Source Sets As IntelliJ IDEA Modules

Miscellaneous

1. Parse Output from Exec Invocation
2. Define A Short Plugin Id For Custom Plugins
3. Base Plugin Usage
4. Apply External Script With Plugin Configured Through Buildscript
5. Init Script for Adding Extra Plugins to Existing Projects
6. Alter Start Scripts from Application Plugin
7. Add But Do Not Apply Plugin Using Plugins Block
8. Set a Project Description
9. Using and Working with Gradle Version
10. Rename Ant Task Names When Importing Ant Build File
11. Use Git Commit Id in Build Script
12. Get Model Report In Short Format
13. Getting Project Information Into Rule Based Model Configuration
14. Set Default Values With Rule Based Model Configuration
15. Show Hidden Model Objects
16. Validate Model In Rule Based Model Configuration
17. Getting Announcements from Gradle Build
18. Extending DSL
19. Create Objects Using DSL With Domain Object Containers
20. Using Nested Domain Object Containers
21. Distribute Custom Gradle in Our Company