Another question: let's say you want to configure a task with a tuple of source folder and filename like:

tasks.register<ValidateJsonFiles>("validateJsonFiles") {
    files = listOf(
        layout.projectDirectory.dir("data/recipes") to layout.projectDirectory.dir("schemas/recipes.json"),
        layout.projectDirectory.dir("data/tasks") to layout.projectDirectory.dir("schemas/tasks.json"),
    )
}

what property do I need to use on the task to correctly define inputs/ouptputs?

Asssuming your

ValidateJsonFiles

is an own task and iirc, you should make a managed type like

DirAndJson

which has

@InputDirectory

on its

dir

property and

@InputFile

on its

json

property and then have

files

be a

ListProperty<DirAndJson>

that is annotated with

@Nested

.

thank you

The task could also have helper methods that create the

DirAndJson

instances for you, so that you can e. g. do

setFiles(dir to file, dir2 to file2)

and the

setFiles

method then creates the

DirAndJson

instances and adds them to the

files

list

yeah, that's what I've got right now as well