Question

Gradle jettyRun task has the daemon property which I want to be false when I start the app, but true when I have it as a dependency of the acceptance-test (fastend2end) task.

task fastend2end(type: Test, dependsOn: jettyRun) {
    description = "Runs the end to end tests"
    testClassesDir = sourceSets.end2end.classesDir
    classpath = sourceSets.end2end.runtimeClasspath
}

Can I specify that for the fastend2end daemon should be true? However, when I run jettyRun by itself I want the daemon property to be false.

Answer 1

You can’t do this directly. But you can use the following snippet to set the daemon property if the fastend2end task is in your execution graph:

gradle.taskGraph.whenReady {graph ->
    if (graph.hasTask(fastend2end)) {
        jettyRun.daemon = true
    }
}