Why is my task being executed?

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Why is gradle executing my task? I don’t want it to.

I have a dot gradle file. I am executing :

$gradle -b my.gradle

no task is specified, but a task is being executed. I don’t want it to execute this task. It fails if the task is executed (the task references a passed in param that I am not yet passing in). Is it required to pass in variables required by a task, even if the task that uses them is not executed? I thought this would be a runtime error instead of a compile time?

What determines if a task is executed or not? and why did it pick my one task (from many) to run?

the task is:

task doDownload {

download {

,…

} }

I would expect this task not to be executed unless I specifically invoke it like:

$gradle -b my.gradle doDownLoad

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It’s very unlikely that your task is being executed without being called. It’s much more likely that you made the mistake of putting the code to be executed in a configuration block. All tasks are configured before any are executed.

Try something like:

task doDownload {
    doFirst {
        download {
            ....
        }
    }
}