org.gradle.tooling
Interface ProjectConnection

public interface ProjectConnection

Represents a long-lived connection to a Gradle project.

Thread safety

All implementations of GradleConnection are thread-safe, and may be shared by any number of threads.

All notifications from a given GradleConnection instance are delivered by a single thread at a time. Note, however, that the delivery thread may change over time.

getModel

<T extends Project> T getModel(Class<T> viewType)
                           throws GradleConnectionException

Fetches a snapshot of the model of the given type for this project.

This method blocks until the model is available.

Type Parameters:

T - The model type.

Parameters:

viewType - The model type.

Returns:

The model.

Throws:

UnsupportedVersionException - When the target Gradle version does not support the given model.

BuildException - On some failure executing the Gradle build, in order to build the model.

GradleConnectionException - On some other failure using the connection.

IllegalStateException - When this connection has been closed or is closing.

getModel

<T extends Project> void getModel(Class<T> viewType,
                                  ResultHandler<? super T> handler)
              throws IllegalStateException

Fetches a snapshot of the model for this project asynchronously. This method return immediately, and the result of the operation is passed to the supplied result handler.

Type Parameters:

T - The model type.

Parameters:

viewType - The model type.

handler - The handler to pass the result to.

Throws:

IllegalStateException - When this connection has been closed or is closing.

newBuild

BuildLauncher newBuild()

Creates a launcher which can be used to execute a build.

Returns:

The launcher.

model

<T extends Project> ModelBuilder<T> model(Class<T> modelType)

Creates a builder which can be used to build the model of the given type.

Type Parameters:

T - The model type.

Parameters:

modelType - The model type

Returns:

The builder.

close

void close()

Closes this connection. Blocks until any pending operations are complete. Once this method has returned, no more notifications will be delivered by any threads.