Hey, got a question about Gradle Enterprise. If I wanted to tag a build failure in order to aggregate build scans using a given tag, is that something I could do from Kotlin code somehow, after catching the exception? Or tagging can only be done via gradle config file using the gradle enterprise plugin? I wonder what would be the appropriate way to do this. Thanks in advance! 🙏

You can do it in your build script like this: https://docs.gradle.com/enterprise/gradle-plugin/#adding_data_at_the_end_of_the_build. To add a custom tag, use the

tag()

method instead of

value()

in the example.

Is it possible to filter by some pattern found in the build logs?

No, there's no way to filter the main scans view by log message. However you might want to explore the functionality in the Failures Dashboard which provides similar functionality: https://ge.gradle.org/scans/failures?search.timeZoneId=America/Edmonton

I’m not sure it is somewhere within the failing exception or not, since it fails with an “error: some error message with reason and advance”, but then it says:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':sometask'.
> Compilation failed; see the compiler error output for details.

So not sure if the error might be accessible or not

If you run the build with

--stacktrace

you'll see the full exception. The actual compiler error is not available though. I don't know what

error: some error message with reason and advance

is.

I don't remember but I think it groups failures by the same exception