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Instead of extending the Exec task, inject ExecOperations into a custom task and use that as needed at execution time.

@Chris Lee, is that specifically for JavaExec tasks? I need to call several different command-line utilities with the Exec tasks.

ExecOperations has two methods - one for general exec, one for javaExec.

inject ExecOperations into a custom task

Are you suggesting that I extend

DefaultTask

? And use

@Inject

in my extension class?

Yep, extend DefaultTask, annotate constructor with @Inject and have ExecOperations as a constructor parameter.

@Chris Lee, I appreciate the help here, and I'm having trouble translating it to the Groovy syntax I need. Would my class to extend

DefaultTask

look like this?

class TransformXslt extends DefaultTask {
    
    @Inject
    TransformXslt(ExecOperations execOps) {}

    @TaskAction
    def transform {
        execOps.exec {
            // Some invocation of a command
        }
    }
}

think so. Haven’t touched Groovy in a while. You could equally do that in Kotlin.

Thanks! Do you have an example of a task that uses the custom type you're defining in

GitRepository

?

The execOps is injected by Gradle at the time the task is created - you don’t need to set it.

Thanks for your help!