Gradle/Groovy syntax confusion

Question

Can anyone explain/comment on this fraction of Groovy code?

task copyImageFolders(type: Copy) {
    from(\'images\') {
        include \'*.jpg\'
        into         


        

Answer 1

The short answer is it's calling from(sourcePath, configureAction).

Groovy has optional brackets in a number of cases and accepts the last parameter (if it's a closure) outside of brackets and in this case that's the closure that you're passing to from().

This is a good blog post explaining the different ways a closure can be passed to a method in Groovy if you want more examples and this offers more examples of optional brackets in general.