Gradle goodness:rename ant Task Names when importing ant Build File

Migrating from Ant to Gradle are very easy and the importBuild method from AntBuilder . We are only having to add the reference existing ant build XML file and all ant tasks can now is executed a s Gradle tasks. We can automatically rename the Ant tasks if we want to avoid task name collisions with Gradle task names. We use a closure argument with the importBuild method and return the new task names. The existing ANT task name is the first argument of the closure.

Let's first create a simple Ant build.xml file:

View Sourceprint? 00. < project > 01.  02. < target name = "showMessage" 03. description = "Show simple message" > 04.  05. < echo message = "Running Ant task ‘showMessage‘" /> 06.  07. </ target > 08.  09. < target name = "showAnotherMessage" 10. depends = "showMessage" 11. description = "Show another simple message" > 12.  13. < echo message = "Running Ant task ‘showAnotherMessage‘" /> 14.  15. </ target > 16.  17. </ project >

The build file contains the targets: And with showMessage showAnotherMessage a task dependency. We have the next example Gradle build file to use these ant tasks and prefix the original ant task names with ant- :

View Sourceprint? 00. // Import Ant build and 01. // prefix all task names with 02. // ‘ant-‘. 03. ant.importBuild( ‘build.xml‘ ) { antTaskName -> 04. "ant-${antTaskName}" .toString() 05. } 06.  07. // Set group property for all 08. // Ant tasks. 09. tasks.matching { task -> 10. task.name.startsWith( ‘ant-‘ ) 11. }*.group = ‘Ant‘

We can run the tasks task to see if the Ant tasks is imported and renamed:

$ gradle tasks --all ... Ant tasks --------- ant-showAnotherMessage - Show another simple message [ant-showMessage] ant-showMessage - Show simple message ... $

We can execute the ant-showAnotherMessage task and we get the following output:

View Sourceprint? 00. $ gradle ant-showAnotherMessage 01. :ant-showMessage 02. [ant:echo] Running Ant task ‘showMessage‘ 03. :ant-showAnotherMessage 04. [ant:echo] Running Ant task ‘showAnotherMessage‘ 05.  06. BUILD SUCCESSFUL 07.  08. Total time: 3.953 secs 09. $

Written with Gradle 2.2.1

Gradle goodness:rename ant Task Names when importing ant Build File