Gradle -v output

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Currently when I run the gradle -v command, I get something like this:

C:\Projects1\SomeTestProject>gradle -v
  ------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 1.1
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  Gradle build time: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 1:24:32 PM UTC
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012
Ivy: 2.2.0
JVM: 1.6.0_31 (Sun Microsystems Inc. 20.6-b01)
OS: Windows 7 6.1 amd64

Is there a way to customize what gets printed? We are creating a custom distribution and packaging our own custom plugins along with the distribution. I’d like to be able to print out the version of our plugins along with this info.

2

There is no support in Gradle to modify this output at the moment. The version number and the build time is taken from a resource at /org/gradle/build-receipt.properties

cheers, René

3

I don’t really need to modify what gets printed - might there be a way I can add things to the end of it? Maybe capture the fact that the user used the -v option and append my own text to whatever gradle is outputting?

4

Could you just supply another task (such as ‘info’) that comes from your custom distribution/plugins? This would also give you access to the versions of the plugins defined in your dependency blocks.

5

I guess I could, but then you would have to be in context of a project right? Plugins are applied to projects and tasks are added to projects. The -v option can be run from anywhere without actually evaluating any projects.

6

It depends - you could add the dependencies of the plugins in a gradle init script which would get loaded by your custom distribution, which would always be loaded regardless of the existence of a project, right?

7

I could - but aren’t tasks associated with projects? Can I create a task in an init script and then execute it?

8

I’m not aware of a way to hook into ‘gradle -v’ or do something similar yourself. The best solution I can think of is to have an init script add an ‘info’ task to the root project (or all projects). For example:

init.gradle

gradle.rootProject {
  task info {
    doLast { println "info" }
  }
}

Running this task from outside the build’s workspace should work fine.