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Andrew Valevskiy
Andrew Valevskiy

Reputation: 569

Gradle implicity run another task

I have two task 

task Hello {
   println 'Hello'
}

task World {
   println 'Hello1'
}

If I run World task Hellowill run also. If I modify my tasks in this way

 task Hello {
      doLast {
          println 'Hello'
      }
    }

    task World {
       println 'Hello1'
    }

then task Hellowon't run. How do doLast{} or doFirst{} sections affect running tasks in gradle?

I can't find information in gradle docs about that. Thx.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 37

Answers (1)

JB Nizet
JB Nizet

Reputation: 692231

The task Hello doesn't run. It's configured.

The code inside the curly braces is the code that configures the task. This code is always executed, whatever the task you tell gradle to run. It must run so that gradle knows what the task does, on which other task it depends, which other task it finalizes, etc.

Once the configuration phase has finished, the execution phase starts. And in that phase, the task that you asked to execute is executed/ In that phase, the code passed to doLast is being executed.

Here's the documentation.

Upvotes: 2

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