After the App Engine Gradle plugin isadded to your project,you can use the following App Engine-specific Gradle tasks:

To see a list of all the tasks:

gradletasks

For more information on how to set up and use Gradle, seeUsingApp Engine Gradle and theapp-gradle-plugin repository on GitHub.

Task properties

The contents of thegradle.build file are a set of rules to describe yourbuild. It's written in a domain specific language for describing builds, basedon theGroovy language.

Each task has associated properties below that you can use. You can specifythese properties in thegradle.build file using aconfiguration closure,task, and properties.

In this example:

• The configuration closure for the plugin isappengine.
• The task isdeploy.
• The properties,stopPreviousVersion andpromote, are set totrue.

appengine{deploy{// deploy configurationstopPreviousVersion=true// default - stop the current versionpromote=true// default - & make this the current version}}

appengine.deploy.stopPreviousVersion=true

See the following sections for a list of the properties that are available foreach task.

appengineStage

task(stage)

Generates an application directory for deployment. Used by theappengineDeploytask and thejettyRun task.

You can use the following properties:

appengineDeploy

task(deploy)

Stages and deploys an application to App Engine.

Each task has associated properties below that you can use. You can specifythese properties in thegradle.build file using aconfiguration closure,task, and properties.

In the following example:

• The configuration closure for the plugin isappengine.
• The task isrun.
• The property,port, is set to8080.

appengine{// App Engine tasks configurationrun{// local (dev_appserver) configuration (standard environments only)port=8080// default}deploy{// deploy configurationstopPreviousVersion=true// default - stop the current versionpromote=true// default - & make this the current version}}

If you only have a to specify a few properties, you can set them in a singleline:

appengine.run.port=8888

Global properties