Question

i asked me if task buildDependent would also build the dependents of the first level dependent project.

Aren’t the further dependents transitive dependent to the initial project?

To better understand what i mean: D -> A <- B <- C

Projects B and D are first level dependents of A and C is transitive dependent.

So what happens if project A is invoked with gradle buildDependent?

Answer 1

A quick test reveals that it does build C. Here’s the result of buildDependent from a folder (filtered with grep build).

:a:build UP-TO-DATE
:b:build UP-TO-DATE
:c:build UP-TO-DATE
:c:buildDependents UP-TO-DATE
:b:buildDependents UP-TO-DATE
:d:build UP-TO-DATE
:d:buildDependents UP-TO-DATE
:a:buildDependents UP-TO-DATE