README.md

Gradle Kata: Build phases

This kata explores the three stages of a gradle build:

• Initialization
• Configuration
• Execution

Setup

Run source setup.sh

This will create a new gradle project in the exercise directory and add several tasks to build.gradle

The task

• Examine the build.gradle script. It contains a property and two tasks:

  • setTheValue changes the value of theValue
  • printTheValue prints the value of theValue

• Predict the outcome of the following commands:

  • ./gradlew printTheValue
  • ./gradlew setTheValue printTheValue

• Run the commands and note the printed values.

• Q: Did the output match your expectations? If not, what tripped you up?

• Change printTheValue so that the message is defined inside the doLast block

  task 'printTheValue' {
      group 'Value'
      description 'Prints the value'
  
      doLast {
          def message = "The value currently is: ${theValue}"
          println message
      }
  }
  

• Run ./gradlew setTheValue printTheValue again

• Why is the increased theValue printed this time, when it wasn't before?