Are there any services to consume to help implemen...
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Jerome Haltom
07/31/2025, 7:40 PMAre there any services to consume to help implementing a per-file compilation avoidance cache? For a custom language or process.
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Philip W
07/31/2025, 7:54 PMj
Jerome Haltom
07/31/2025, 8:11 PMHow int he world did I miss that. Hehe. Thanks
Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:06 PMSo I've implemented that in some of my tasks. But, I have a task which extends Sync, early in the process (renames files to a destination for later tasks to process). It looks like Sync invalidates everything and causes the later tasks to run full.
Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:07 PMNot sure why though.... I would think Sync would do nothing for files that haven't changed already.
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Vampire
08/01/2025, 1:17 PMWhatever
Sync--infoj
Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:24 PMSo, I have a source dir, a temp dir, and an output dir (this is actually much simpler than it really is). Sync runs first and copies from source to temp. TheWorkTask runs second and processes temp into output.
Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:24 PMReading around it looks like Sync and Copy both are still non incremental, and rewrite everything.
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Vampire
08/01/2025, 1:25 PMYes, they do, but that should be irrelevant.
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Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:26 PMBuild cache key for task ':vcprepAwgBatchCobol' is a6ce6eff52cf44d0fcc1f0a849d0c88b
Task ':vcprepAwgBatchCobol' is not up-to-date because:
Input property '$1' file D:\awg\awg-mainframe\build\tmp\initAwgBatchCobol\ABENDL.cbl has changed.
The input changes require a full rebuild for incremental task ':vcprepAwgBatchCobol'.
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Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:26 PMThat's sorta the best I get.....
Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:26 PMIt does in fact know only a single file changed!
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Vampire
08/01/2025, 1:38 PMYeah, but
Input property '$1'inputs.fileVampire
08/01/2025, 1:39 PMIf any input besides the explicitly declared incremental input is changing, it cannot run incrementally, as that means an input that affects all of the incremental input files has changed
Vampire
08/01/2025, 1:40 PMIf you for example have an incremental input with 10 files
Your incremental action is to replace a placeholder with a version in those files
You have an additional input that defines the version to fill in.
If one of the incremental files changes, your task can run incrementally and only handle that file.
But if the version changes, all files have to be processed.
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Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:45 PMI don't follow. I mean, it says which file changed. But isIncremental returns false.
Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:49 PMOr are you saying... maybe... that because I have an incrmentalinputs property (setSource), but ALSO register the same files with getInputs(), that the latter invalidates the whole thing?
Jerome Haltom
08/01/2025, 1:51 PMAhh. Yup. That was it.
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Vampire
08/01/2025, 2:13 PMExactly