Equivalents for mvn update and mvn install in gradle

Question

I am new in gradle hence I have some questions about gradle. Before gradle I worked with maven and in maven there are some commands such as

With mvn update we download the dependency packages from internet and the other packages from the different projects.

With mvn install we create the jar, war, ear or ejb so what are the equivalents for maven command in gradle?

I don't know much about Maven, but Gradle specifically provides `jar` and `war` tasks if the corresponding plugins (`java` and `war` respectively) are declared in `build.gradle` — rrobby86, Jun 26 '17 at 08:44
Have a look at this guide: https://guides.gradle.org/migrating-from-maven/ — larsgrefer, Jun 26 '17 at 09:36

score 50 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 26 '17 at 08:47

Gradle will automatically fetch all required dependencies for you.

Long story short:

mvn update        ~= ./gradlew build --refresh-dependencies
mvn clean install ~= ./gradlew clean build

TL;DR

To force Gradle to redownload dependencies you can execute (How can I force gradle to redownload dependencies?):

./gradlew build --refresh-dependencies

To assemble you project without executing tests (Gradle build without tests):

./gradlew assemble

To completely build you project with test execution:

./gradlew build

You can skip certain tasks by providing -x argument:

./gradlew build -x test

The counterpart for maven's _install_ phase should be gradle's _install_ task (provided by the `maven` plugin) or the _publishToMavenLocal_ task (provided by the `maven-publish` plugin) — larsgrefer, Jun 26 '17 at 09:32

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '18 at 10:28

12

The equivalent to

mvn clean install

is

gradle install

what is provided by the maven plug-in of Gradle. Just add the following line to your build.gradle file:

apply plugin: 'maven'

answered Mar 23 '18 at 10:28

deamon

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The other answer mentions `gradle build` as the equivalent: what is the difference? – payne Jun 05 '20 at 22:54
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`gradle build` doesn't put the resulting jar in a repository, it only builds it. – deamon Aug 26 '20 at 13:06
What is the gradle equivalent of `mvn clean -Dmaven.test.skip=true install`? – epox Jul 29 '21 at 00:38

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 26 '22 at 10:58

1

This works for me.

./gradlew publishToMavenLocal

answered May 26 '22 at 10:58

vintuwei

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Nov 14 '21 at 08:47

0

Here is the command:

./gradlew build

edited Nov 14 '21 at 08:47

Aivean

answered Nov 14 '21 at 08:05

PRATIK BURNWAL

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This has already been mentioned in [this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/44755949/2227743). *When answering older questions that already have answers, please make sure you provide either a novel solution or a significantly better explanation than existing answers.* – Eric Aya Nov 14 '21 at 10:09

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