Hi Rene,
I did not know about the gradle.properties files. This indeed is just what I
was looking for. In looking at how it is implemented however, I am confused by
the override behavior.
I'm used to values passed in at the command line to override any other
settings. I'm told this is what you'd expect from ant as well. This seems to
hold true for -P, but -D is ignored if the value is defined in
gradle.properties.
With this in your build.gradle file:
println "${fruit} is ${System.getProperty('color')}
1) Execute gradle with command line overrides to get:
>gradle -Pfruit=banana -Dcolor=yellow
banana is yellow
Next add the following to gradle.properties in same folder as build.gradle:
fruit=apple
systemProp.color=red
2) Execute gradle with command line overrides to get:
>gradle -Pfruit=banana -Dcolor=yellow
banana is red
Next add the following to gradle.properties in ~/.gradle:
fruit=orange
systemProp.color=orange
3) Execute gradle with command line overrides to get:
>gradle -Pfruit=banana -Dcolor=yellow
banana is orange
I'm using milestone-3. Is this the expected behavior?
Thanks,
Richard.
From: Rene Groeschke [mailto:gra...@breskeby.com]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 1:05 PM
To: user@gradle.codehaus.org
Subject: Re: [gradle-user] init script to parameterize build?
Hi Richard,
for user specific properties, you can use the gradle.properties file in your
user related gradle directory. On my mac this would be
~/.gradle/gradle.properties. All properties defined in this file overwrite
according values defined in a project specific gradle.properties file. IMHO
this is the most convenient way to provide user specific properties for your
build scripts.
regards,
René
Am 17.10.11 21:54, schrieb Richard Miehe:
I have been passing in several settings using on my gradle command line using
-D. Many of the settings are always the same for a particular machine or user.
It seems like init.gradle is the perfect spot to put this type of thing.
I have not found any way of defining variables in an init script, then
accessing them from a build.gradle script. Am I missing something obvious?
Any examples would be appreciated.
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