How to define and call custom methods in build.gradle

Question

As part of my project, I need to read files from a directory and do some operations all these in build script. For each file, the operation is the same(reading some sql queries and execute it). I think its a repetitive task and better to write inside a method. Since I'm new to gradle, I dont know how it should be. Please help.

Answer 1

One approach given below:

ext.myMethod = { param1, param2 ->
    // Method body here
}

Note that this gets created for the project scope, ie. globally available for the project, which can be invoked as follows anywhere in the build script using myMethod(p1, p2) which is equivalent to project.myMethod(p1, p2)

The method can be defined under different scopes as well, such as within tasks:

task myTask {
    ext.myMethod = { param1, param2 ->
        // Method body here
    }

    doLast {
        myMethod(p1, p2) // This will resolve 'myMethod' defined in task
    }
}