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Mastering Gradle

Mastering Gradle

By : Mitra
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Mastering Gradle

Mastering Gradle

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By: Mitra

Overview of this book

If you are a developer with some experience in build tool and want to become an expert in build tool, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Gradle or any other build tool is essential.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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File management


One of the key features of any build tool is I/O operations and how easily you can perform the I/O operations such as reading files, writing files, and directory-related operations. Developers with Ant or Maven backgrounds know how painful and complex it was to handle the files and directory operations in old build tools; sometimes you had to write custom tasks and plugins to perform these kinds of operations due to XML limitations in Ant and Maven. Since Gradle uses Groovy, it will make your life much easier while dealing with files and directory-related operations.

Reading files

Gradle provides simple ways to read the file. You just need to use the File API (application programing interface) and it provides everything to deal with the file. The following is the code snippet from FileExample/build.gradle:

task showFile << {
  File file1 = file("readme.txt")
  println file1    // will print name of the file
  file1.eachLine {
    println it  // will print contents line...

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