How to get "gradle" have similar output details as "ant"?

Question

_{My issue has no answer on questions How can I get Gradle ant logging to work? and Gradle: Get Ant Task Output.}

My ant script build.xml

<project>
  <target name="build">
    <mkdir dir="dest"/>
    <javac srcdir="src" destdir="dest" includeAntRuntime="false"/>
    <copy todir="dest" >
      <fileset dir="src" casesensitive="no">
        <include name="**/*.properties"/>
      </fileset>
    </copy>
    <jar destfile="MyJar.jar">
      <fileset dir="dest"/>
    </jar>
  </target>
</project>

The output of command ant build has some nice details

Buildfile: /some/path/build.xml

build:
    [mkdir] Created dir: /some/path/dest
    [javac] Compiling 25 source files to /some/path/dest
     [copy] Copying 3 files to /some/path/dest
      [jar] Building jar: /some/path/MyJar.jar

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 0 seconds

Simple script build.gradle

ant.importBuild 'build.xml'

The output of command gradle build is missing some details

:build

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.638 secs

We can notice the missing lines about the commands mkdir, javac, copy and jar.

Option --info is too much verbose

> gradle --info build
Starting Build
Settings evaluated using settings file '/master/settings.gradle'.
Projects loaded. Root project using build file '/some/path/build.gradle'.
Included projects: [root project 'o']
Evaluating root project 'o' using build file '/some/path/build.gradle'.
Compiling build file '/some/path/build.gradle' using SubsetScriptTransformer.
Compiling build file '/some/path/build.gradle' using BuildScriptTransformer.
All projects evaluated.
Selected primary task 'build' from project :
Tasks to be executed: [task ':build']
:build (Thread[main,5,main]) started.
:build
Executing task ':build' (up-to-date check took 0.001 secs) due to:
  Task has not declared any outputs.
[ant:mkdir] Created dir: /some/path/dest
[ant:javac] Compiling 25 source files to /some/path/dest
[ant:copy] Copying 3 files to /some/path/dest
[ant:jar] Building jar: /some/path/MyJar.jar
:build (Thread[main,5,main]) completed. Took 0.646 secs.

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.947 secs

Answer 1

_{I share here my solution if this can help someone else.}

It depends on the version of Gradle!

Using Gradle 2.13

Elevate the log level of the task build (Ant target) in the script build.gradle:

ant.importBuild 'build.xml'
build.logging.level = LogLevel.INFO

Output of gradle build is now similar to ant build

:build
[ant:mkdir] Created dir: /some/path/dest
[ant:javac] Compiling 25 source files to /some/path/dest
[ant:copy] Copying 3 files to /some/path/dest
[ant:jar] Building jar: /some/path/MyJar.jar

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.692 secs

Using Gradle 3.2

Add ant.lifecycleLogLevel = "INFO" in the script build.gradle:

ant.importBuild 'build.xml'
ant.lifecycleLogLevel = "INFO"

Output of command gradle build

:build
[ant:mkdir] Created dir: /some/path/dest
[ant:javac] Compiling 25 source files to /some/path/dest
[ant:copy] Copying 3 files to /some/path/dest
[ant:jar] Building jar: /some/path/MyJar.jar

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 0.531 secs