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Mastering Gradle

You're reading from   Mastering Gradle Master the technique of developing, migrating, and building automation using Gradle

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Published in Jul 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783981366
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Mitra Mitra
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Mastering Gradle
Credits
About the Author
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Preface
1. Getting Started with Gradle FREE CHAPTER 2. Groovy Essentials for Gradle 3. Managing Task 4. Plugin Management 5. Dependency Management 6. Working with Gradle 7. Continuous Integration 8. Migration 9. Deployment 10. Building Android Applications with Gradle Index

Closure


Closure has usually been associated with functional languages. Groovy provides a very easy way of creating closure objects. A Groovy Closure is like a code block written in curly braces. Many people associate Closure to be an anonymous function in Java.

Closure in Groovy may accept arguments and returns a value. By default, the last statement in a Groovy Closure is the return statement. It means that if you are not explicitly returning any value from Closure, it will by default, returns the output of the last statement of Closure. Commonly, we define a Closure like this {argument list-> closure body}. Here, an argument list is a comma separated value that Closure accepts. Arguments are optional. If no argument is specified, then one implicit untyped argument named it will be available in the Closure body. The argument it will be null if no argument is supplied during Closure invocation.

In the following example, for the first call of Closure addTwo the variable it is assigned is...

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