Task execution
As mentioned earlier, a task is nothing but a single or group of actions that is executed to perform certain operations. You can add multiple actions to doFirst
or doLast
closures if needed. The doFirst
closure will always execute before the doLast
closure. You can add the actions to the task even after task definition.
For example, add the following statements after the sampleTask2
task is mentioned in the preceding script.
sampleTask2.doFirst { println "Actions added separately" } sampleTask2.doLast { println " More Actions added " }
The preceding statement will add two more additional actions to sampleTask2
. Gradle provides one short notation for doLast
, which is <<
.
In Groovy, <<
is the left shift operator to append elements to ...
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