Hey everyone. I'm trying to write a task in for Gradle 6.4.1 using Groovy 2.5.10. I'm trying a simple task:

task hello {
    doLast {
        println "Hello world!"
    }
}

but it's failing with the following error:

Could not find method task() for arguments [hello, test_36j2h73i78oarkgx47smjygs2$_run_closure1@6c6f8529] on build of type org.gradle.invocation.DefaultGradle.

What's going on? Won't Gradle 6.4.1 recognize closures? Any help or clue would be most appreciated. Thanks!

build of type org.gradle.invocation.DefaultGradle

looks strange here. Wouldn't the message be about

Project

in a

build.gradle

file? Are you trying this in a

settings.gradle

? (disclaimer: I haven't used the Groovy DSL for years)

@Thomas Broyer I'm trying this in an init script, it's the only thing I have on that script

Ah yes, init script indeed (settings script would be of type

Settings

) You cannot create a task from there, the

task()

method is only available on a `Project`: https://docs.gradle.org/6.4.1/dsl/org.gradle.api.Project.html#org.gradle.api.Project:task(java.lang.String,%20groovy.lang.Closure)

Ahh... Gotcha, thank you very much!

You can, but not just on top-level. The question more whether you should, but that depends on the situation.

I'm trying to create something to download project sources without having to modify the project build.gradle file. I have a plugin working, but only for newer gradle versions. I need it to work for older gradle versions too, so I'll need to come up with something

Well, as the docs for init scripts say, the context you have is https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.invocation.Gradle.html, there you find the things you could use, like

allrojects { ... }

if you need the task on all projects of the build and so on

I see, thank you @Vampire, it's pretty basic stuff, I'm not familiar with Gradle at all. Thanks