Giving project references in gradle

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Hi,
i am working on gradle project There are interdependent components
for example: there are 2 componenets A and B
A is dependent on B
In build.gradle of component A i have given project reference of B like below mentioned-
implementation project(’:B’)
if i build component A the dependent component B java files will be compiled but the uts and jar are not built
Is there any way to build dependent components uts and jars ?
Gradle version that i am using is 7.1

Thanks

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What are “uts”?
The jar is not built because Gradle tries to avoid work where possible and just for compiling A, the jar of B is not necessary, but the compiled classes are sufficient.
There are multiple ways to get the jar, for example ./gradlew :B:jar to build specifically the B jar, or ./gradlew :B:build to build the B project including running tests- and assembling all jars like sources jar or JavaDoc jar, or ./gradlew build to do so for all projects in the build.
It really depends on what exactly you want to do.

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Uts are the unit test cases

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Unit tests are executed if you run the test task or any that depends on it like check or build.

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So can we run unit tests of dependent component B ? if yes how can we declare that in dependencies block of component A

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No, you cannot declare that in the dependencies block.
And also you shouldn’t.
Maybe you should take a step back and desribe what your actual use-case is / what your situation is / what problem you actually try to solve.
There might be more appropriate solutions than what you are asking for.

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