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Hello, I was looking at putting together a PR to <https://github.com/fvarrui/JavaPackager|Javapackager> so that it could be compatible with the configuration cache. One of the issues is that it creates tasks at execution time to zip/tar the application. Having read about <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/service_injection.html#archiveoperations|service injection> I was under the impression that `ArchiveOperations`  could create archives, but it seems to only have methods for reading from them. Am I missing something?

Hm, that documentation section is extremely misleading

But of course the plugin should not create tasks at execution time.
Especially as that does not really work as expected anyway.
It should just use any library or std class that can create tars or zips.

Or create the tasks at configuration time of course

Afair there is no built-in way to create tars or zips except by properly defining and using according tasks.

yeah, the documentation even says "create"
I guess I'll need to replace how archives are made then

It also says it is in the package `org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling` which also is not true.
The `Tar` and `Zip` task with which you can create archives are in that package, the `ArchiveOperations` not. :see_no_evil:

Also "You can obtain an instance of `ArchiveOperations` using the `project.zipTree` property" is total non-sense.
I wonder which 3-week intern wrote that section. :smile:

<https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/31060>

thanks, I made an issue as well: <https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/31059>