Hi everyone. The gradle plugin I'm building (in kotlin) has a task that takes a directory as an input, however the contents of that directory are not supposed to be considered inputs to the task. If I use the

DirectoryProperty

type I also need to declare it

@InputDirectory

and now the contents are considered part of the input. When I declare it as a

Property<File>

with

@Input

works as I want it to, but I'd prefer a type that requires it to be a directory. Is File my only option or are there other types I'm not aware of?

You can annotate it as

@Internal

and declare another property (could be protected) that would compute the actual input (if it’s somehow relevant for the task) and would be annotated as

@Input

. E.g. something like this:

@get:Internal("covered by myPath")
val myProperty: DirectoryProperty = ...

@get:Input
protected val myPath: Provider<String> = myProperty.map { it.asFile.path }

Maybe as relative path though, especially if the task should become cacheable