I have the following multi-module project structure.
Root project 'reports-be'
+--- Project ':auth'
+--- Project ':builder'
| +--- Project ':builder:base'
| \--- Project ':builder:reporting'
\--- Project ':common'
When I run build task for /builder subproject and I expect that build task will be executed for all subprojects (for :builder:base and :builder:reporting).
gradle clean :builder:build
But gradle execute build task only for subproject :builder.
According Gradle documentation build task should be completed for all subprojects.
Why doesn't it happen?
P.S. I found that the command gradle -p builder clean build works as I expected. But I really don't understand what is wrong with first mentioned gradle task.
P.S.S. I have build.gradle in every subproject and my settings.gradle looks like
rootProject.name = 'reports-be'
include 'common'
include 'builder'
include 'auth'
include 'builder:base'
include 'builder:reporting'
:builder:build is a qualified task name of the task build in the project :builder, so only this one task (and its dependencies) will be executed. The execution in all (sub-)projects is only possible for unqualified task names as build. You may switch to the builder directory and run gradle build from there, however this approach won't work if you want to run clean for all projects in the same invocation and it's kind of ugly when using the wrapper (gradlew). As far as I know, there is no direct solution for your use case.
If I get you right, the :builder project is just a dummy project for organization purposes and does not contain any actual sources or anything else to build. In this case, you may solve your problems using task dependencies inside builder/build.gradle:
task build {
dependsOn ':builder:base:build', ':builder:reporting:build'
}