Gradle - Build system evolved
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Gradle is a general-purpose build automation tool. It combines the power and flexibility of Ant with the dependency management and conventions of Maven into a more effective way to build. Its powered by Groovy DSL. Presentation discusses what and why Gradle with demo for java, groovy, web, multi-project and grails projects.
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Gradle - Build system evolved
- 1. Gradle -‐ Build system evolved By Bhagwat Kumar
- 2. Agenda • What and Why? • Key features of Gradle • Project and tasks • Using java/groovy/war/jetty plugins • Manage dependency • Working with multi-‐module project • Create grails application using Gradle 2
- 3. What is Gradle? • A general-‐purpose build automation tool. It can automate • building • testing • deployment • publishing • generate static websites • generate documentation • indeed anything else • Designed to take advantage of convention over configuration. • Combines the power and flexibility of Ant with the dependency management and conventions of Maven into a more effective way to build. 3
- 4. Why Gradle? • Powerful and expressive Groovy DSL instead of XML. • Adaptable to nonconventional project structures. • Works well for java as well as non java projects. • Extensible (plugins!). • Multi project builds are hassle free. • Powerful dependency management. • Reduced start up cost using Gradle daemon. • Caching of task input output. • Introduced to Android with Android Studio. • Grails 3.0 build system will be updated to use Gradle.
- 5. Combines best features from other build tools. Image source : http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/why-‐build-‐your-‐java-‐projects-‐with-‐gradle/240168608
- 6. Features Image source : http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/why-‐build-‐your-‐java-‐projects-‐with-‐gradle/240168608
- 8. Installation Using gvm $ gvm install gradle $ gradle -‐v $ gradle init $ gradle tasks Access gradle documentation from local file system {USER_HOME}/.gvm/gradle/current/docs/userguide/userguide.pdf
- 9. Gradle Build Script • build.gradle file in project root directory. • Its actually a groovy script. • This is where you define gradle tasks. • Every Gradle build is made up of one or more projects. 9
- 10. Gradle project • It does not necessarily represent a thing to be built. • It might represent a • library jar • web-‐app • distribution zip assembled from the JARs produced by other projects • thing to be done : deploy to staging server 10
- 11. Gradle Tasks • An atomic piece of work that a build performs. • compile classes • create jar • generate java doc • publish some archive to a repository • Each project is made up of one or more tasks 11
- 12. build.gradle task hello << { Defines task 'hello' with groovy closure. println "Hello !!!!" } task greet <<{ println "Welocome Mr. Kumar" } task intro(dependsOn: hello) << { println "I'm Gradle" Defines task 'intro' which depends on 'hello' task appends additional groovy closure to be executed to existing 'hello' task } hello << { println "Hello extended!!!!" } greet.dependsOn hello, intro // gradle tasks :list all the available tasks // gradle intro :executes intro task // gradle -‐q greet :bare build output // gradle -‐-‐daemon hello :subsequent execution will be fast gradle tasks are groovy objects. You can change dependency of existing tasks
- 13. Using plugins • Gradle core intentionally provides very little for automation. • All of the useful features are added by plugins. e.g. java compile. • Gradle plugins • add new tasks (e.g. JavaCompile) • add domain objects (e.g. SourceSet) • add conventions (e.g. Java source is located at src/main/java) • extends core objects and objects from other plugins • Plugin portal : http://plugins.gradle.org/ 13
- 14. Applying plugins 14 Script plugins //from a script on the local filesystem or at a remote location. apply from: 'other.gradle' Binary plugins // applying a binary plugin by type apply plugin: 'java' Using plugins DSL //version is optional plugins { id "com.jfrog.bintray" version "0.4.1" }
- 15. Using java plugin • New/modified tasks • clean, compileJava, classes, jar, uploadArchives, build etc. • Default project layout • src/main/java • src/main/resources • src/test/java • Dependency configurations • compile, runtime, testCompile, archives etc. • Convention properties • sourceSets, sourceCompatibility, archivesBaseName etc. 15
- 16. Changing project layout for java plugin 16 apply plugin: 'java' sourceSets { main { java { srcDirs = ['source/main/java'] } } test { java { srcDirs = ['source/test/java'] } } |-‐-‐ build.gradle |-‐-‐ settings.gradle `-‐-‐ source `-‐-‐ main `-‐-‐ java `-‐-‐ com `-‐-‐ intelligrape `-‐-‐ gradle `-‐-‐ Application.java package com.intelligrape.gradle.demo; public class Application { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello Gradle!!!"); } } Application.java
- 17. A task to execute java class 17 build.gradle apply plugin: 'java' task runMe(type: JavaExec, dependsOn: 'classes') { main = "com.intelligrape.gradle.demo.Application" classpath = sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath } Execute java class using 'runMe' task $ gradle -‐q runMe Hello Gradle!!! Or execute using java command $ gradle -‐q build $java -‐cp build/classes/main com.intelligrape.gradle.demo.Application Hello Gradle!!!
- 18. Configure jar manifest apply plugin: 'java' sourceCompatibility = 1.5 //controls jar file name version = '1.0-‐snapshot' archivesBaseName="sample-‐java" //self executable jar jar { manifest { attributes("Main-‐Class": "com.intelligrape.manifest.Application", "Implementation-‐Version": version) } } $ gradle -‐q build $java -‐jar build/lib/sample-‐java-‐1.0-‐snapshot.jar Hello Gradle!!!
- 19. Dependency management apply plugin: 'java' repositories { //mavenLocal() mavenCentral() //maven { url "http://repo.mycompany.com/maven2"} //flatDir { dirs 'lib1', 'lib2'} } dependencies { compile "org.quartz-‐scheduler:quartz:2.1.5" testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11' compile project(':shared') //project dependency runtime files('libs/a.jar', 'libs/b.jar') //file dependency }
- 20. Working with groovy plugin • Groovy plugin extends the Java plugin to add support for Groovy projects. • It can deal with Groovy code, mixed Groovy and Java code, and even pure Java code. • New/modified tasks • compileGroovy, groovyDoc, classes etc • Project layout • src/main/groovy • src/test/groovy • You must add dependency for groovy • compile localGroovy() • compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-‐all:2.3.6'
- 21. build.gradle with groovy plugin apply plugin: 'groovy' repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { // compile localGroovy() compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-‐all:2.3.6' } sourceSets { main { groovy { srcDirs = ['source/groovy'] } } test { groovy { srcDirs = ['source/groovy'] } } }
- 22. Using war and jetty plugin apply plugin: "war" //gradle assemble //apply plugin: "jetty" //gradle jettyRun version = "1.0.0" archivesBaseName = "multi-‐web" repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { compile project(":utils") compile "javax.servlet:servlet-‐api:2.5" } |-‐-‐ build.gradle `-‐-‐ src `-‐-‐ main |-‐-‐ java | `-‐-‐ com | `-‐-‐ intelligrape | `-‐-‐ web | `-‐-‐ HomeServlet.java `-‐-‐ webapp |-‐-‐ WEB-‐INF | `-‐-‐ web.xml `-‐-‐ index.jsp
- 23. Working with multi-‐project build.gradle 'hello' task is added to root as well as all the sub projects allprojects { task hello << { task -‐> println "I'm $task.project.name" } } subprojects { Applied to only sub projects task onlySubProjectTask << { task -‐> println "I'm $task.project.name" } apply plugin: "java" repositories { mavenCentral() } java plugin applied to all subproj Applied to only root project } task onlyMainProjectTask << { task -‐> println "Only Main Project Task : ${task.project.name} " } multi-‐project/ |-‐-‐ build.gradle |-‐-‐ settings.gradle |-‐-‐ top | `-‐-‐ build.gradle `-‐-‐ util `-‐-‐ build.gradle settings.gradle rootProject.name = 'multi-‐project' include 'util', 'top'
- 24. Working with multi-‐project cont... Executing 'hello' task : executed for all projects $ gradle hello :hello I'm multi-‐project :top:hello I'm top :util:hello I'm util Executing 'onlySubProjectTask' task : executed for only sub-‐projects $ gradle onlySubProjectTask :top:onlySubProjectTask I'm top :util:onlySubProjectTask I'm util Execute hello task of 'top' sub-‐project only $ gradle :top:hello :top:hello I'm top
- 25. Using grails-‐gradle plugin buildscript { repositories { jcenter() } dependencies {classpath "org.grails:grails-‐gradle-‐plugin:2.0.0"} } version "0.1" group "example" apply plugin: "grails" grails { grailsVersion = '2.3.6' springLoadedVersion '1.1.3' groovyVersion = '2.3.6' } repositories { //maven repo for the Grails Central repository (Core libraries and plugins) grails.central() } dependencies { // No container is deployed by default, so add this bootstrap "org.grails.plugins:tomcat:7.0.50" // Just an example of adding a Grails plugin compile 'org.grails.plugins:resources:1.2' }
- 26. Using grails-‐gradle plugin continued • Create build.gradle file and copy content from previous slide. • Execute 'gradle init' which will create file structure • To run app execute: • gradle gradle-‐run-‐app • The plugin configures a Gradle Task Rule to allow execution of any available Grails scripts as Gradle tasks. Simply prefix the Grails script name with grails-‐ and execute from Gradle. • e.g. 'gradle grails-‐refresh-‐dependencies' • Passing arguments to Grails Tasks : • gradle -‐PgrailsArgs="FooController" grails-‐create-‐controller • Setting the Grails Environment : • gradle -‐PgrailsEnv=prod grails-‐run-‐app 26
- 27. Q/A 27
- 28. Thank you. 28 Blog: http://www.intelligrape.com/blog/author/bhagwat LikedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bhagwatkumar Twitter: http://twitter.com/bhagwatkumar Mail : bhagwat@intelligrape.com
- 29. References 29 http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/userguide_single.html http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/java_plugin.html http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/groovy_plugin.html http://plugins.gradle.org/ http://mrhaki.blogspot.in/2010/09/gradle-goodness-run-java-application.html http://mrhaki.blogspot.in/2009/11/using-gradle-for-mixed-java-and-groovy.html http://rominirani.com/2014/07/28/gradle-tutorial-part-1-installation-setup/ http://rominirani.com/2014/07/28/gradle-tutorial-part-2-java-projects/ http://rominirani.com/2014/07/29/gradle-tutorial-part-3-multiple-java-projects/ http://rominirani.com/2014/08/12/gradle-tutorial-part-4-java-web-applications/ http://grails.github.io/grails-gradle-plugin/docs/manual/guide/introduction.html http://www.drdobbs.com/jvm/why-build-your-java-projects-with-gradle/240168608 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_build_automation_software http://pygments.org/