Build Targets

Overview

Our Latte project file doesn’t do anything yet, so let’s add some targets.

project(group: "org.example", name: "my-project", version: "1.0", licenses: ["Apache-2.0"]) {
  ...
}

target(name: "clean", description: "Cleans out the build directory") {
  ...
}

target(name: "build", description: "Compiles the project") {
  ...
}

target(name: "test", description: "Executes the projects tests", dependsOn: ["build"]) {
  ...
}

This is a fairly common project file that includes targets to clean the project, build the project and run the tests. Notice that the test target depends on the build target.

Target dependencies

Target dependencies are an ordered list. This means that Latte will ensure that dependent targets are executed in the order they are defined in the project file. For example:

target(name: "one") {
  output.info("One")
}

target(name: "two") {
  output.info("Two")
}

target(name: "three", dependsOn: ["one", "two"]) {
  output.info("Three")
}

If we run the build like this:

$ latte three

Latte guarantees that the output will always be:

One
Two
Three