null

• Alias: null
• Task: Maestro\Library\Task\Task\NullTask
• Handler: Maestro\Library\Task\Task\NullHandler

• Arguments:

  • This task has no arguments

This task does nothing. It can be used to create aggregate targets.

In the following example the null tasks 4, 5 and 6 depend on all of tasks 1, 2, and 3 to be successful. Rather than each explicitly declaring all the dependencies, they can target the null task.

Example:

{
    "nodes": {
        "example/package": {
            "nodes": {
                "phpunit": {},
                "phpstan": {},
                "php-cs-fixer": {},
                "qa": {
                    "depends": [
                        "phpunit",
                        "phpstan",
                        "php-cs-fixer"
                    ]
                },
                "tag_versions": {
                    "depends": ["qa"]
                },
                "build_documentation": {
                    "depends": ["qa"]
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Which looks something like this: