How do I gradle run without any dependency checking?

Question

We have a complex set of build.gradle scripts.

Is it possible to run a task without dependency checking of any kind?

e.g.

gradle run

should just start the jvm and nothing else?

Thank you.

Answer 1

If you want to exclude module dependencies, there is a -a, or --no-rebuild option to skip other subprojects/modules.

If you want to skip the compilation, or resources tasks, you can use the -x option.

Answer 2

If running on bash, you can skip all dependencies like this

./gradlew test $(./gradlew test --dry-run | awk '/^:/ { print "-x" $1 }' | sed '$ d')

What this does is simply

• to do a dry-run of the build, to detect all dependencies and
• build a command line with all required -x flags.

Notice:

• you can use the Gradle --console plain flag if you want to see the initial output without the pretty-print features of Gradle
• the sed allows to skip the last line... awk being quite complex to do the same...