Ignore Gradle Build Failure and continue build script?

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Managing Android's dependencies with Gradle is done in a weird way. They have to be downloaded differently into a local repo. This is a pain when setting up CI build as there are multiple nodes this could run on. As such I'm using the sdk-manager-plugin to have the Android dependencies downloaded at build time. There seems to be an old bug that I'm experiencing with the sdk-manager-plugin though in that it will download the dependencies at build time, but they won't be available on that command.

The next time the command is run everything works fine (as everything is already downloaded), but I need to find a way to ignore the build failure of the first gradle command so that everything is downloaded and good to go for the second. I realize this is hacky, but I'm done messing with this.

Ideally something like this would work:

./gradlew clean --ignoreBuildFailures
./gradlew distributeCIBuild

The closest thing I could find in the Gradle documentation is --quite but that doesn't look like it'd work.

Any creative solutions welcome.

Try running `./gradlew --help` or looking at [1]. The description is "Continues task execution after a task failure". [1]: https://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/gradle_command_line.html — rciovati, Mar 11 '15 at 22:16
In the example I post above with the fake `--ignoreBuildFailures`, do you think it'd work if I replace that with `--continue`? It sounds like it'd still fail the build after the clean was run. It just saves it till the end. — spierce7, Mar 11 '15 at 22:22
That appears to have worked (although it's difficult to reproduce sometimes). Would you mind creating an answer, and I'll mark it correct in a day or so? — spierce7, Mar 11 '15 at 22:28

score 37 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 26 '19 at 11:10

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The flag to use is --continue.

From the documentation:

Continues task execution after a task failure.

edited Oct 26 '19 at 11:10

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answered Mar 11 '15 at 22:38

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thanks for the very very valuable answer. I was able to solve a client deployment issue because of this. :) – Utkarsh Mankad Mar 14 '16 at 06:01
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@UtkarshMankad you cannot be serious :o – Jake Graham Arnold Jun 21 '17 at 08:30
Our way of enabling "Warnings as Errors" but keeping things easy for "trying things out". – sschrass Feb 27 '20 at 15:08

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 29 '20 at 11:47

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add this in the build.gradle file :

tasks.withType(JavaCompile) {
    options.failOnError(false)
}

answered Sep 29 '20 at 11:47

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 10 '22 at 10:26

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You can use ignoreExitValue

task ktlint(type: JavaExec, group: "verification") {
    description = "Check Kotlin code style."
    ignoreExitValue = true
}

answered Dec 10 '22 at 10:26

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Ignore Gradle Build Failure and continue build script?

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