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<chapter id='build_lifecycle' xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
    <title>The Build Lifecycle</title>
    <para>We said earlier, that the core of Gradle is a language for dependency based programming. In Gradle terms this
        means that you can define tasks and dependencies between tasks. Gradle guarantees that these tasks are executed
        in the order of their dependencies, and that each task is executed only once. Those tasks form a
        <ulink url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph'>Directed Acyclic Graph</ulink>. There are
        build tools that build up such a dependency graph as they execute their tasks. Gradle builds the complete
        dependency graph <emphasis>before</emphasis> any task is executed. This lies at the heart of Gradle and makes
        many things possible which would not be possible otherwise.
    </para>
    <para>Your build scripts configure this dependency graph. Therefore they are strictly speaking <emphasis>build
        configuration scripts</emphasis>.
    </para>
    <section id='sec:build_phases'>
        <title>Build phases</title>
        <para>A Gradle build has three distinct phases.
        </para>
        <variablelist>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>Initialization</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Gradle supports single and multi-project builds. During the initialization phase, Gradle
                        determines which projects are going to take part in the build, and creates a
                        <apilink class="org.gradle.api.Project"/> instance for each of these projects.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>Configuration</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>The build scripts of <emphasis>all</emphasis> projects which are part of the build are
                        executed. This configures the project objects.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
            <varlistentry>
                <term>Execution</term>
                <listitem>
                    <para>Gradle determines the subset of the tasks, created and configured during the configuration
                        phase, to be executed. The subset is determined by the task name arguments passed to the
                        <command>gradle</command> command and the current directory. Gradle then executes each of the
                        selected tasks.
                    </para>
                </listitem>
            </varlistentry>
        </variablelist>
    </section>
    <section id='sec:settings_file'>
        <title>Settings file</title>
        <para>Beside the build script files, Gradle defines a settings file. The settings file is determined by Gradle
            via a naming convention. The default name for this file is <filename>settings.gradle</filename>. Later in
            this chapter we explain, how Gradle looks for a settings file.
        </para>
        <para>The settings file gets executed during the initialization phase. A multiproject build must have a
            <filename>settings.gradle</filename>
            file in the root project of the multiproject hierarchy. It is required because in the
            settings file it is defined, which projects are taking part in the multi-project build (see
            <xref linkend='multi_project_builds'/>). For a single-project build, a settings file is optional.
            You might need it for example, to add libraries to your build script classpath (see <xref
                    linkend='organizing_build_logic'/>). Let's first do some introspection with a single project
            build:
        </para>
        <sample id="buildlifecycle" dir="userguide/buildlifecycle/basic" title="Single project build">
            <sourcefile file="settings.gradle"/>
            <sourcefile file="build.gradle"/>
            <output args="test"/>
        </sample>
        <para>For a build script, the property access and method calls are delegated to a project object. Similarly
            property access and method calls within the settings file is delegated to a settings object. Have a look at
            <apilink class='org.gradle.api.initialization.Settings'/>.
        </para>
    </section>
    <section id='sec:multi_project_builds'>
        <title>Multi-project builds</title>
        <para>A multi-project build is a build where you build more than one project during a single execution of
            Gradle. You have to declare the projects taking part in the multiproject build in the settings file. There
            is much more to say about multi-project builds in the chapter dedicated to this topic (see <xref
                    linkend='multi_project_builds'/>).
        </para>
        <section id='sub:project_locations'>
            <title>Project locations</title>
            <para>Multi-project builds are always represented by a tree with a single root. Each element in the tree
                represent a project. A project has a virtual and a physical path. The virtual path denotes the position
                of the project in the multi-project build tree. The project tree is created in the
                <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file. By default it is assumed that the location of the settings
                file is also the location of the root project. But you can redefine the location of the root project
                in the settings file.
            </para>
        </section>
        <section id='sub:building_the_tree'>
            <title>Building the tree</title>
            <para>In the settings file you can use a set of methods to build the project tree. Hierarchical and flat
                physical layouts get special support.
            </para>
            <section>
                <title>Hierarchical layouts</title>
                <sample id="standardLayouts" dir="userguide/multiproject/standardLayouts" title="Hierarchical layout">
                    <sourcefile file="settings.gradle" snippet="hierarchical-layout"/>
                </sample>
                <para>The <literal>include</literal> method takes as an argument a relative virtual path to the root
                    project. This relative virtual path is assumed to be equals to the relative physical path of the
                    subproject to the root project. You only need to specify the leafs of the tree. Each parent path of
                    the leaf project is assumed to be another subproject which obeys to the physical path assumption
                    described above.
                </para>
            </section>
            <section>
                <title>Flat layouts</title>
                <sample id="standardLayouts" dir="userguide/multiproject/standardLayouts" title="Flat layout">
                    <sourcefile file="settings.gradle" snippet="flat-layout"/>
                </sample>
                <para>The <literal>includeFlat</literal> method takes directory names as an argument. Those directories
                    need to exist at the same level as the root project directory. The location of those directories
                    are considered as child projects of the root project in the virtual multi-project tree.
                </para>
            </section>
        </section>
        <section id='sub:modifying_element_of_the_project_tree'>
            <title>Modifying elements of the project tree</title>
            <para>The multi-project tree created in the settings file is made up of so called <firstterm>project descriptors</firstterm>.
                You can modify these descriptors in the settings file at any time. To access a descriptor you can do:
            </para>
            <sample id="customLayout" dir="userguide/multiproject/customLayout" title="Modification of elements of the project tree">
                <sourcefile file="settings.gradle" snippet="lookup-project"/>
            </sample>
            <para>Using this descriptor you can change the name, project directory and build file of a project.
            </para>
            <sample id="customLayout" dir="userguide/multiproject/customLayout" title="Modification of elements of the project tree">
                <sourcefile file="settings.gradle" snippet="change-project"/>
            </sample>
            <para>Have a look at <apilink class="org.gradle.api.initialization.ProjectDescriptor"/> for more details.</para>
        </section>
    </section>
    <section id='sec:initialization'>
        <title>Initialization</title>
        <para>How does Gradle know whether to do a single or multiproject build? If you trigger a multiproject build
            from the directory where the settings file is, things are easy. But Gradle also allows you to execute the
            build from within any subproject taking part in the build.
            <footnote>
                <para>Gradle supports partial multiproject builds (see <xref linkend='multi_project_builds'/>).
                </para>
            </footnote>
            If you execute Gradle from within a project that has no <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file,
            Gradle does the following:
        </para>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
                <para>It searches for a <filename>settings.gradle</filename> in a directory called <filename>master</filename>
                    which has the same nesting level as the current dir.
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>If no <filename>settings.gradle</filename> is found, it searches the parent directories for the existence of a
                    <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file.
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>If no <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file is found, the build is executed as a single project build.
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>If a <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file is found, Gradle checks if the current project is part of the
                    multiproject hierarchy defined in the found <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file. If not, the build is executed as a
                    single project build. Otherwise a multiproject build is executed.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
        <para>What is the purpose of this behavior? Somehow Gradle has to find out, whether the project you are into, is
            a subproject of a multiproject build or not. Of course, if it is a subproject, only the subproject and its
            dependent projects are build. But Gradle needs to create the build configuration for the whole multiproject
            build (see <xref linkend='multi_project_builds'/>). Via the <option>-u</option>
            command line option, you can tell Gradle not to look in the parent hierarchy for a <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file. The
            current project is then always build as a single project build. If the current project contains a
            <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file, the <option>-u</option> option has no meaning. Such a build is always executed as:
        </para>
        <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
                <para>a single project build, if the <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file does not define a multiproject hierarchy
                </para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
                <para>a multiproject build, if the <filename>settings.gradle</filename> file does define a multiproject hierarchy.
                </para>
            </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
        <para>The auto search for a settings file does only work for multi-project builds with a physical hierarchical
            or flat layout. For a flat layout you must additionally obey to the naming convention described above.
            Gradle supports arbitrary physical layouts for a multiproject build. But for such arbitrary layouts you need
            to execute the build from the directory where the settings file is located. For how to run partial builds
            from the root see <xref linkend='sec:running_partial_build_from_the_root'/>. In our next release we want to
            enable partial builds from subprojects by specifying the location of the settings file as a command line
            parameter. Gradle creates Project objects for every project taking part in the build. For a single
            project build this is only one project. For a multi-project build these are the projects specified in
            Settings object (plus the root project). Each project object has by default a name equals to the name of its
            top level directory. Every project except the root project has a parent project and might have child projects.
        </para>
    </section>
    <section id='sec:configuration_and_execution_of_a_single_project_build'>
        <title>Configuration and execution of a single project build</title>
        <para>For a single project build, the workflow of the <emphasis>after initialization</emphasis>
            phases are pretty simple. The build script is executed against the project object that was created during
            the initialization phase. Then Gradle looks for tasks with names equal to those passed as command line
            arguments. If these task names exist, they are executed as a separate build in the order you have passed
            them. The configuration and execution for multi-project builds is discussed in <xref linkend='multi_project_builds'/>.
        </para>
    </section>
    <section id="build_lifecycle_events">
        <title>Responding to the lifecycle in the build script</title>

        <para>Your build script can receive notifications as the build progresses through its lifecyle. These
            notifications generally take 2 forms: You can either implement a particular listener interface, or you can
            provide a closure to execute when the notification is fired. The examples below use closures. For details on
            how to use the listener interfaces, refer to the API documentation.
        </para>

        <section>
            <title>Project evaluation</title>
            <para>You can receive a notification immediately before and after a project is evaluated. This can be used
                to do things like performing additional configuration once all the definitions in a build script have
                been applied, or for some custom logging or profiling.
            </para>
            <para>Below is an example which adds a <literal>test</literal> task to each project with the
                <literal>hasTests</literal> property set to true.
            </para>
            <sample id="projectEvaluateEvents" dir="userguide/buildlifecycle/projectEvaluateEvents" title="Adding of test task to each project which has certain property set">
                <sourcefile file="build.gradle" snippet="after-evaluate"/>
                <sourcefile file="projectA.gradle"/>
                <output args="-q test"/>
            </sample>
            <para>This example uses method <literal>Project.afterEvaluate()</literal> to add a closure which is executed
                after the project is evaluated.</para>
            <para>It is also possible to receive notifications when any project is evaluated. This example performs
                some custom logging of project evaluation. Notice that the <literal>afterProject</literal> notification
                is received regardless of whether the project evaluates successfully or fails with an exception.
            </para>
            <sample id="buildProjectEvaluateEvents" dir="userguide/buildlifecycle/buildProjectEvaluateEvents" title="Notifications">
                <sourcefile file="build.gradle" snippet="evaluate-events"/>
                <output args="-q test"/>
            </sample>
            <para>You can also add a <apilink class="org.gradle.api.ProjectEvaluationListener"/> to the
                <apilink class="org.gradle.api.invocation.Gradle"/> to receive these events.
            </para>
        </section>

        <section>
            <title>Task creation</title>
            <para>You can receive a notification immediately after a task is added to a project. This can be used
                to set some default values or add behaviour before the task is made available in the build file.</para>
            <para>The following example sets the <literal>srcDir</literal> property of each task as it is created.</para>
            <sample id="taskCreationEvents" dir="userguide/buildlifecycle/taskCreationEvents" title="Setting of certain property to all tasks">
                <sourcefile file="build.gradle"/>
                <output args="-q a"/>
            </sample>
            <para>You can also add an <apilink class="org.gradle.api.Action"/> to a
                <apilink class="org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskContainer"/> to receive these events.</para>
        </section>

        <section>
            <title>Task execution graph ready</title>
            <para>You can receive a notification immediately after the task execution graph has been populated. We
                have seen this already in <xref linkend="configure-by-dag"/>.
            </para>
            <para>You can also add a <apilink class="org.gradle.api.execution.TaskExecutionGraphListener"/> to the
                <apilink class="org.gradle.api.execution.TaskExecutionGraph"/> to receive these events.
            </para>
        </section>

        <section>
            <title>Task execution</title>
            <para>You can receive a notification immediately before and after any task is executed.</para>
            <para>The following example logs the start and end of each task execution. Notice that the
                <literal>afterTask</literal> notification is received regardless of whether the task completes
                successfully or fails with an exception.</para>
            <sample id="taskExecutionEvents" dir="userguide/buildlifecycle/taskExecutionEvents" title="Logging of start and end of each task execution">
                <sourcefile file="build.gradle"/>
                <output args="-q broken"/>
            </sample>
            <para>You can also use a <apilink class="org.gradle.api.execution.TaskExecutionListener"/> to the
                <apilink class="org.gradle.api.execution.TaskExecutionGraph"/> to receive these events.
            </para>
        </section>
    </section>
</chapter>
