Here's another little "gotcha" on gradle tasks. When they're triggered. I've seen quite a few posts on stackoverflow along the lines of "How can I call a gradle task". You can't (Well ok you could but you don't want to). It is executed as a dependency of another task.
Going back to that little copy task I wanted to execute, I needed it to run roughly somewhere after the clean task and before jar task. I ended up making my copy task dependent of compile. That didn't work so I tried compileJava and classes and... only to later realize that the dependency was in the wrong direction: My task depends on one that is being executed but that doesn't trigger my task, it merely states that my task, should it be executed, can only be run after some other task.
So let's revert the direction of the dependency. There are several ways to do this and I don't know if there's a best practice. Here are a few variations:
I currently use the first variation because my task is standalone and I only need to define the task dependencies. However, the jar.doFirst approach has its appeal too since it's nice and short. I'm just reluctant to manipulate the logic of an existing task provided by a plugin.
What I haven't figured out yet, is how to put the task into a variable and have the ability to reuse it for several modules of my projects.
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