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# plugin-developments
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Vampire
11/22/2023, 10:08 PMThe "bar" in what you showed it just used for logging afair, to for example say "output file X for property bar changed", but you cannot use it for the wiring.
Vampire
11/22/2023, 10:08 PMYou do not have a property "bar" in your task, you just have a "property name"
Vampire
11/22/2023, 10:09 PMEither make it a full class, which can also be done within the build script, to have it as full property, or do it differently like
Vampire
11/22/2023, 10:11 PM Copy code
val bar: RegularFileProperty = ...
val sourceTask = tasks.register("sourceTask") {
outputs.dir(...).withPropertyName("foo")
outputs.file(bar).withPropertyName("bar")
}
val other by tasks.existing {
theInput = bar
}Vampire
11/22/2023, 10:12 PMI'm not sure whether the implicit task dependency is forwarded though in this case like it is for a proper property of a full class, so it might be necessary to instead do
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theInput = sourceTask.map { bar }Vampire
11/22/2023, 10:12 PMAnd at some point you should think about moving all this logic better into a proper custom task and / or plugin. 🙂
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Kelvin Chung
11/22/2023, 10:13 PMIt's kludgey either way, true. It's one of those things where in order to replace this terrible Gradle code with better Gradle code, you need to add kludges to the terrible Gradle code first.
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