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Müller
Müller

Reputation: 1023

If else in Gradle scripts

I have this really strange behavior in Gradle and I cannot find a way out of it. In my gradle.properties file, I am using this checking condition:

//gradle.properties

if ( "${System.Property['DATABASE_DIR']}".compareTo('swdb') == 0 ) {
    PROJECT_DATABASE_PATH=../database/swdb/include
    }   
else {
    PROJECT_DATABASE_PATH=../database/include/
}

I created a new task called printProperties and it looks like this. 

//build.gradle
task printProperties {
    println "${System.properties['DATABASE_DIR']}".compareTo('swdb') == 0
    println PROJECT_DATABASE_PATH
}

I get the following output when I run the printProperties task.

$gradle printProperties -DDATABASE_DIR=swdb

true

../database/include/

:printProperties UP-TO-DATE

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.07 secs

It is really strange that the task prints true but the gradle.properties file does not evaluate the same condition correctly. Could anybody help me with this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7748

Answers (1)

Bipi
Bipi

Reputation: 3579

Your code shall take place in a init.gradle script.

You can find documentation here : https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/init_scripts.html

gradle.properties file is only for key=value pairs

Upvotes: 5

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