Hello,
I second this, but I'd prefer a direct maven to gradle translation.
One project with multiple modules with different plugins used in each
would help me out a lot. I'd say the docs are really good, but some
real world examples would speed comprehension.
Happy Holidays
~mike
On Dec 22, 2008, at 9:47 AM, szczepiq wrote:
What might be really useful is a small snippet of ant xml and the
direct translation from the gradle world. I think I didn't see
something like this in the user guide.
If someone rewrites ant scripts into gradle he will probably face some
'direct translation' job. Like when I 'translated' <pmd> target from
build.xml and put it in build.gradle.
Cheers,
Szczepan Faber
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Hans Dockter <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Dec 22, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Haug Bürger wrote:
Since I'm not happy with either Ant nor Maven I was looking for
alternatives.
I tried with Gradle 0.5. I started with a simple task, create a
simple web
service
client with the integrated JAX-WS of JDK 6.
To make it short, I failed. I'm used to press Ctrl-Space and get the
attributes
of an object. I didn't expect that for a 0.5 release
Gradle is not shipped with an IDE ;)
but I do expect an API
documentation.
I found a code snippet on the net:
ant {
taskdef(name: 'wsimport',
classname: 'com.sun.tools.ws.ant.WsImport'),
classpath: dependencies.antpath('lib')
}
I look at the Gradle doc and found:
groovy.util.AntBuilder ant(groovy.lang.Closure configureClosure)
Executes the given closure against the AntBuilder for this
project. You
can use this in your build file to execute ant tasks.
You can call this method in your build file using ant followed by
a code
block.
Parameters: configureClosure - The closure to execute against the
AntBuilder. The closure receives no paramters. Wow, that solved
all my
questions! Just joking. There was at least a hint to something
called
AntBuilder. Searching Gradle API for AntBuilder, not found. Might
be some
Groovy thing, found a groovy.util.AntBuilder. But there is no
taskdef, no
classname, no classpath in the poor documentation.
Those details might be not necessary I think, as long as the main
principle
is made clear: The AntBuilder can be used exactly the same way as
Ant, if a
simple notation transformation is applied.
This might be sufficient for a Groovy professional but not for me.
I could
not find out what happens here.
I agree that Gradle should have a chapter on how to use Ant from
Gradle.
How do I read the documentation?
Your problem obviously is not about 'how to read' but about what is
missing.
We spend quite a bit of time on our documentation. 80 pages means a
lot of
work. But there is a lot of potential for improvement regarding to
content
and structuring.
Would you mind filing a Jira on this?
- Hans
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Hans Dockter
Gradle Project lead
http://www.gradle.org
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