I need some help refactoring poorly written Gradle code. Suppose I have this:

val taskA = tasks.named("A")
tasks.register("B") {
  onlyIf { taskA.get().onlyIf.isSatisfiedBy(this) }
}

I think the intent is that B has the same

onlyIf

conditions as A, whatever they they may be, but the issue is that

onlyIf

appears to be internal API even though the compiler doesn't flag it. Any advice on a redesign?

is taskA's onlyIf defined by you? If so, you could extract it into a common value, e.g.

val sharedOnlyIf = Spec { ... }

taskA.configure {
  onlyIf(sharedOnlyIf)
}

taskB.configure {
  onlyIf(sharedOnlyIf)
}

Not defined by me, unfortunately.

Hmmm okay

There are examples of B being complex tasks in their own right, and A being finalized by B.

I'm unsure if it will keep working in the future, but you could consider

onlyIf { taskA.get().didWork }

. I think the timing of the

onlyIf

evaluation is late enough for that.