How to change gradle default tasks behavior?

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Hello,

I use as subproject a project with ant build.xml and other important file in the {buildDir}.
I know this is bad but it is not my project. I have just added a build.gradle in it to launch every task of the subproject from my main project.
The problem here is if someone launch the clean Task, subproject is destroyed.

I am interrested in two kind of solutions:

1.When someone launch the clean task -> do nothing
2.When someone launch the clean Task -> do something else instead

Are those two solutions possible and how?

Best Regards

2

By default the behavior of the ‘clean’ task is to delete project.buildDir. You have a couple options.

As for solution number #1 you can:

  1. Disable the task with clean.enabled = false
  2. Have it simply do nothing by setting the paths to delete to an empty list clean.delete = []

For solution #2 you’ll want to go with option 2 above and then specify your own behavior:

  1. Have it delete something else via clean.delete 'some/dir', 'some/otherDir'
  2. Or do whatever you want via a custom task action clean.doLast { // arbitrary code }
3

At first , i used “clean.enabled = false” in my subproject and it worked flawlessly.

Then i had the time to trully customize the task to delete only files into two directories of my subproject like this
clean.delete=[]
clean {
delete fileTree(‘tmp’).include(’**/’),fileTree(‘dist’).include(’**/’)
}

Thank You.