Gradle specify settings dir path for a sub project

Question

In a multi-project build I have a module that in itself is composed of two sub-projects. If I just want the option of building the top-level module but also ensure both the sub-projects within it are also built, how I do achieve this?

include 'moduleA', 'moduleB', 'moduleC' (root project settings.gradle)
project(':moduleC').projectDir = new File('path to custom module that includes sub-projects)
project(':moduleC').settingsDir = ?? (gradle fails because there is no settingsDir path)

but moduleC has a settings.gradle in itself that has

include 'api'
include 'server'

Now I want both these to be triggered when I specify gradlew :moduleC:build, but instead it just builds moduleC root project. Is there a way? This use case does seem valid to me (i.e. for modularity, you want to keep the inclusion of sub-projects at moduleC's level and not at root level).

Thanks,
Paddy

Answer 1

As of Gradle 2.2, only a single settings.gradle per build is supported. If that file contains include "moduleC:api" and include "moduleC:server", then running gradle build from moduleC's project directory will also build api and server.