What are the parts of the task lifecycle
- Execution
- Initialization, Configuration, Execution (Ans)
- Initialization, Configuration, Execution, Finalization
- Configuration, Execution
How do you declare a typed task?
- task copyImages (type: Copy) (Ans)
- Copy copyImages
- task copyImages (Copy)
In a multi project build which two files do I need to add to the top level project?
- build.gradle and build.settings
- multi.gradle and settings.gradle
- build.gradle and settings.gradle (Ans)
- build.gradle and settings.properties
What does the wrapper task do?
- Wraps up the code so that any exceptions are caught
- Wraps gradle so it can be used from an IDE such as Eclipse
- Installs an extra set of Java tasks to make testing easier
- Ensures that all developers use the same version of Gradle to build the code (Ans)
What is the syntax for filtering tests in gradle?
- add a test { filter {} } closure (Ans)
- build only the tests you want to run
- you have to run all the tests, you cannot filter
- add the test-filter plugin
What does taskA.finalizedBy taskB do?
- Causes taskB to run before taskA
- Nothing, this is not yet available in Gradle
- Causes taskB to run after taskA (Ans)
- Causes taskA and taskB to run in parallel
How do you declare a task?
- Task taskName (Ans)
- Task.withName taskName
- taskName: Task
- Task: taskName
When copying files you can use which method to replace text?
- expand (Ans)
- replace
- insert
- regex
How do you declare dependencies between tasks?
- taskA : taskB
- taskB.runsBefore taskA
- taskA.depends taskB
- taskA.dependsOn taskB (Ans)
Which of the following is valid gradle syntax to add a compile dependency on junit?
- compile name=junit version=4.1.2
- compile ‘junit:junit:4.1.12’ (Ans)
- compile ‘junit:4.12’
- compile ‘junit:version:4.1.12’
What is the syntax for defining a repository in Gradle?
- use jcenter()
- repositories { jcenter() } (Ans)
- repository: jcenter()
- repositories: jcenter()
When you call doLast on a task twice passing different closures what happens?
- Only the first closure is executed
- Neither closure is executed, it is an error
- Only the last closure is executed
- Both closures are executed (Ans)
How do you add the java plugin?
- apply java plugin
- apply plugin ‘java’ (Ans)
- java ‘plugin’
- Do nothing. The plugin is always enabled
If you use the gradle-testsets-plugin how do you add an integrationTest sourceset in gradle?
- testSets { integrationTest = ‘myDir’ }
- integrationTest { dirName=’myDir’}
- testSets { integrationTest { dirName=’myDir’ } } (Ans)
- testSets { dirName=’myDir’}
When you use the << syntax which method on the task is executed?
- last
- first
- doFirst
- doLast (Ans)
When you taskA.mustRunAfter taskB
- taskB always runs after
- taskA always runs after taskB
- taskA runs after taskB only if both tasks are scheduled to run (Ans)
If I want to run a java application which plugin do I use?
- java-runner
- java
- run
- application (Ans)
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