Hey I am trying to define single task that can run...

# gradle

[igor.wojda]

Hey I am trying to define single task that can run all static checks (ktlint, android lint, detekt) and tests - single taks that could verify project correctness. As far as I know only way to do it in gradle is to define task that depends on other tasks so they will run before:

task("prCheck") {
    afterEvaluate {
        // Non-android modules do not have lint task
        val lintDependencies = subprojects.mapNotNull { "${it.name}:lint" }

        val taskDependencies = mutableListOf<String>("ktlintCheck", "detekt", "testDebugUnitTest")
        taskDependencies.addAll(lintDependencies)
        dependsOn(taskDependencies)
    }
}

Above task works well for android lint, detekt, ktlint, however it fails to resolve testDebugUnitTest task 🤔

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':prCheck'.
> Task with path 'testDebugUnitTest' not found in root project 'android'.

[gildor]

Where do you create this task? It will work only in module with this task

[gildor]

Also, it may be somehow related to task creation

[igor.wojda]

I am defining prCheck task in project root level build.gradle.kts, so and I am able to run it in project root like this ./gradlew prCheck - the only problem is testDebugUnitTest task that comes from Android

FYI I can run ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest without any problems - the problem starts when I want to use it as dependency

[gildor]

No, it will not work like that, you cannot just define task and depend on task in another module

[gildor]

Dependencies by default only resolve tasks in the same module

[gildor]

Instead, apply this task in app your modules

[gildor]

You can run it like ./gradlew testDebugUnitTest only because Gradle resolve tasks from all modules and run all of them (with the same name), but this doesn't work in task dependencies, so to implement such check task:
1. Apply it to every module, so it will resolve dependencies and Gradle will.run check task on every module where this task exists
2. You probably can get task from submodule directly, like submodules["myModule"].tasks["testDebugUnitTest] and set dependency on it, but didn't try this approach, and all default Gradle task work like 1, not like 2