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Gradle Effective Implementations Guide

You're reading from   Gradle Effective Implementations Guide This comprehensive guide will get you up and running with build automation using Gradle.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784394974
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Starting with Gradle FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Gradle Build Scripts 3. Working with Gradle Build Scripts 4. Using Gradle for Java Projects 5. Dependency Management 6. Testing, Building, and Publishing Artifacts 7. Multi-project Builds 8. Mixed Languages 9. Maintaining Code Quality 10. Writing Custom Tasks and Plugins 11. Gradle in the Enterprise 12. IDE Support

Working with files


It is very common in a build script that we have to work with files and directories. For example, when we need to copy a file from one directory to another or create a directory to store the output of a task or program.

Locating files

To locate a file or directory relative to the current project, we can use the file() method. This method is actually a method of the Project object that is connected to our build script. In the previous chapter, we discussed how to use an explicit reference to the project variable or simply invoke methods and properties of the Project object implicitly.

The file() method will resolve the location of a file or directory relative to the current project and not the current working directory. This is very useful as we can run a build script from a different directory than the location of the actual build script. File or directory references that are returned by the file() method are then resolved, relative to the project directory.

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