Good morning. I noticed that a good number of public-facing methods that accept Closures aren't annotated with

@DelegatesTo

and/or

@ClosureParams

. Is there a good reason for this or is this just a result of how long Gradle has been around? And would you be open to contributions that add these annotations? I'd appreciate the additional IDE support.

There are different reasons, but in a nutshell: • no

Closure

taking method has been added in Gradle for years: they take

Action

and the closure version is generated • the

Closure

taking methods have been slowly removed, the ones which are left are there because they are incompatible with the

Action

change or cause API breaking change • if I remember the remaining

Closure

methods accept different kind of arguments which make it difficult if ever possible to use

@DelegatesTo

because the delegate type can be whatever

Ok, removing the

Closure

accepting methods is a good alternative since Groovy knows how to deal with

Action

. What examples of methods that accept closures are incompatible?

I don't have that in mind, I don't remember, last time I was on that it was several years ago 😄

Understandable 😅