Gradle – an object-oriented build tool
If we were to think of a build system in an object-oriented way, the following classes will immediately come to our minds:
- A
projectthat represents a system that is being built - A
taskthat encapsulates pieces of build logics that need to be performed
Well, we are lucky. As we might expect, Gradle creates objects of both project and task types. These objects are accessible in our build script for us to customize. Of course, the underlying implementation is non-trivial and the API is very sophisticated.
A project object is a central piece of API that is exposed to and configured via the build scripts. A project object is available in the script such that the methods without object reference are intelligently invoked ...
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