In Gradle we can assign a task to a group. Gradle uses the group for example in the output of $ gradle -t to output all the tasks of the same group together. We only have to set the group property with a value and our task belongs to a group.
In the following sample we add the tasks hello and bye to the group Greeting:
def GREETING_GROUP = 'Greeting'
task hello << {
println 'Hello Gradle!'
}
hello.group = GREETING_GROUP
hello.description = 'Say hello.'
task bye {
description= 'Say goodbye.'
group = GREETING_GROUP
}
bye << {
println 'Goodbye.'
}
If we run $ gradle -t we get the following output:
:tasks ------------------------------------------------------------ Root Project ------------------------------------------------------------ Greeting tasks -------------- bye - Say goodbye. hello - Say hello. Help tasks ---------- dependencies - Displays a list of the dependencies of root project 'taskgroup'. help - Displays a help message projects - Displays a list of the sub-projects of root project 'taskgroup'. properties - Displays a list of the properties of root project 'taskgroup'. tasks - Displays a list of the tasks in root project 'taskgroup'. To see all tasks and more detail, run with --all.
Written with Gradle 0.9.
