Gradle User Guide

A

Artifact

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B

Build Script

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C

Configuration

See Dependency Configuration.

Configuration Injection

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D

DAG

See Directed Acyclic Graph.

Dependency

See External Dependency.

See Project Dependency.

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Dependency Configuration

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Dependency Resolution

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Directed Acyclic Graph

A directed acyclic graph is a directed graph that contains no cycles. In Gradle each task to execute represents a node in the graph. A dependsOn relation to another task will add this other task as a node (if it is not in the graph already) and create a directed edge between those two nodes. Any dependsOn relation will be validated for cycles. There must be no way to start at certain node, follow a sequence of edges and end up at the original node.

Domain Specific Language

A domain-specific language is a programming language or specification language dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation technique, and/or a particular solution technique. The concept isn't new—special-purpose programming languages and all kinds of modeling/specification languages have always existed, but the term has become more popular due to the rise of domain-specific modeling.

DSL

See Domain Specific Language.

E

External Dependency

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Extension Object

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I

Init Script

A script that is run before the build itself starts, to allow customization of Gradle and the build.

Initialization Script

See Init Script.

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Plugin

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Project

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Project Dependency

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Publication

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R

Repository

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S

Source Set

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T

Task

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Transitive Dependency

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