create gradle task in java based plugin - java

I have a java based gradle plugin that does some common configurations for our gradle projects. Now I want to add tasks like (currently present in our build.gradle for each project)
task javadocJar(type: Jar) {
classifier = "javadoc"
from javadoc
}
What I need is a hint on how to do this in a java based gradle plugin.
In another plugin I already register tasks using project.getTasks().create("myTask", MyTask.class); where MyTask extends AbstractTask and has a #TaskAction method to do its duty. But I'm found no way to adapt this to work with what i want to do with the sample above.
I tried to google for a solution but until now i did not find a helpfull soution as everything i find is using groovy or something similar to my snipped above directly in the build.gradle.
Thanks in advance!
Looks like I found a solution, at least for the javadoc task...
Task javadocTask = project.getTasks().getByName("javadoc");
project.getTasks().create("javadocJar", Jar.class, task -> {
task.dependsOn(javadocTask);
task.setClassifier("javadoc");
task.from(javadocTask);
});
this seems to work... but now i have an issue with the next gradle task:
task sourcesJar(type: Jar, dependsOn: classes) {
classifier = 'sources'
from sourceSets.main.allSource
}
until now i haven't found a way to get a hand on the sourceSets varialbe in Java.
Thanks in advance! :)
response to asettoufs comment:
The docs you have linked are related to projects with sub projects. What I have are multiple single projects that are not related. For those we have a plugin that already applies some plugins and configures them. so the projects have a common configuration by just applying our plugin.
Our plugin is written in java. And should continue to be java. Now we want to move some more common build config stuff to the plugin - for example some of those basic tasks as above.

To get your the source set you can ask the convention
project.getTasks().create("sourceJar", Jar.class, task -> {
task.setClassifier("sources");
// grab the convention that holds the sourceSets
JavaPluginConvention javaConvention = project.getConvention().getPlugin(JavaPluginConvention.class);
// find our source set
SourceSet mainSourceSet = javaConvention.sourceSets.findByName('main');
// user `from` like normal
task.from(mainSourceSet.getAllSource());
});
Some source code to see how the JavaPlugin creates the sourceSet written in Java
Creating the java convention
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/java/org/gradle/api/plugins/JavaPlugin.java#L266
Creating the sourceSets
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/java/org/gradle/api/plugins/JavaPlugin.java#L298

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JsonSchema2Pojo and manual task in gradle

What I would like to achieve
I would like to have a manual gradle task that I can generate Java classes based on Json schema. However, I don't want this task to run when I run other fx. gradle build.
What I did
Firstly I've create simple gradle java project with
gradle init
Then I have added jsonschema2dataclass plugin and configure it as follows (my current build.gradle):
/*
* This file was generated by the Gradle 'init' task.
* (...)
*/
plugins {
// Apply the application plugin to add support for building a CLI application in Java.
id 'application'
id "org.jsonschema2dataclass" version "4.5.0"
}
repositories {
// Use Maven Central for resolving dependencies.
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
// Use JUnit Jupiter API for testing.
testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.6.2'
// Use JUnit Jupiter Engine for testing.
testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine'
// This dependency is used by the application.
implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:29.0-jre'
}
application {
// Define the main class for the application.
mainClass = 'GradlePlayground.App'
}
jsonSchema2Pojo {
includeGeneratedAnnotation = true
generateBuilders = true
targetPackage = 'org.example.api' // specify package for your needs
targetDirectoryPrefix = file("${project.rootDir}/app/src/main/java")
source.setFrom files("${project.rootDir}/app/src/main/resources/json")
}
What I've tried
Add task.enabled = false
Put plugin configuration into another task
Check source code of plugin to find a way to disconnect this task from build task
But all above trails have failed. When I run gradle tasks I can always see generateJsonSchema2DataClass and generateJsonSchema2DataClass0 as part of build tasks.
I'm using java 8 and gradle 6.9.3
I'm the author of the gradle plugin.
Short answer for your question is "no, it's not an intended flow for a normal project". However, it's always possible to create a new project, build it once and extract the sources.
Could you please explain, what the reason you want to exclude run from the build chain?
My only guess is to build and publish models. And if this is a case, it's possible to do this using some gradle magic, which described in discussions in the GitHub project
UPD: Based on your gradle script, I have a lot of "why" questions I'd like to ask, it'll be easier if you

How do you use Maven-Publish Android Gradle Plugin's generated components in Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts)?

Currently I'm working with an old Kotlin DSL build script that publishes an Android AAR library to a Maven repository. The dependencies are added to the pom-default.xml via simplistic iteration through the implementation configurations. Similar to this:
withXml {
val dependenciesNode = asNode().appendNode("dependencies")
configurations.getByName("implementation") {
dependencies.forEach {
val dependencyNode = dependenciesNode.appendNode("dependency")
dependencyNode.appendNode("groupId", it.group)
dependencyNode.appendNode("artifactId", it.name)
dependencyNode.appendNode("version", it.version)
}
}
}
This doesn't translate the exclusion statements, and so now publishes useless broken libraries with conflicting classes. I'd like to be able to use the Android Gradle Plugin's generated build artifact components instead, because I understand that by using these, the pom file will be automatically generated with the right list of dependencies (presumably with the exclusion clauses).
The documentation to do this is given here:
https://developer.android.com/studio/build/maven-publish-plugin
Unfortunately, as always, the example given is Groovy, and I cannot find any example of the syntax you would use in a Kotlin Gradle script.
from(components["release"])
...didn't work.
Okay, turns out...
from(components["release"])
...does work, I just didn't put in the...
afterEvaluate {
...clause, recklessly assuming this was just a Groovy thing.
Remember kids, stay away from drugs, work hard at school and follow the documentation faithfully, to a tee.

In Buildship: how can I substitute a Gradle project with a built jar?

I would like to be a able to get Eclipse to ignore one Gradle project, and instead use a pre-built version of it.
Background
I have a project "parser" written in Scala, and a dozen others written in Java. The weakest link in my tool-set is Scala IDE. I use this plugin to edit & compile Scala code, but unfortunately it breaks the Java (JDT) tooling quite badly in mixed-language projects*.
Specifically: Call-hierarchy is missing results, searches crash and so on. Also Scala IDE appears to have lost funding and the issues sound fairly fundamental, so I'm not holding my breath for these issues to be fixed.
With Maven (m2e) I had a workaround I was quite happy with:
Build as a .jar put into my local .m2 repository:
cd parser; mvn install
In Eclipse, close the "parser" project
"Like magic", m2e simply picked up the most recent 'installed' .jar and used it in place of the closed project.
An awesome answer would be how to get Gradle to do that!
However all I wish for is any solution that meets these...
Requirements
That I can open Project parser when necessary (which is seldom),
to edit and build changes via the Gradle command-line.
I will close it when done.
Other projects use the built .jar from my local .m2 repo.
(It's fine if they always do so.)
The change must not affect others who don't use Eclipse
(ideally) the change can be used by other Eclipse users
Approaches
A similar question had this good answer by #lance-java with a number of general suggestions. I think I can rule out these ideas:
composite build support / multiple repos. Other team members wouldn't think it makes sense to build this project separately, as it is quite closely integrated with the others.
dependency substitution rules - doesn't appear to meet requirement 3.
Something along the lines of lance-java's idea #4 sounds viable. Paraphrasing...
"use the eclipse plugin [in conjunction with] Buildship, e.g. using the whenMerged hook to tweak the generated .classpath [of all the Java projects]."
UPDATE: [18 Apr]: I had hit a brick wall in this approach. Buildship was not putting the built .jar onto the runtime classpath. (UPDATE 2: Now resolved - see my answer.)
Questions
The main question: How can I structure a solution to this, that will actually work & avoid any major pitfalls?
Note that the project itself has a few dependencies, specifically:
dependencies {
compile 'org.scala-lang:scala-library:2.12.4'
compileOnly 'com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:1.3.9'
antlr 'org.antlr:antlr4:4.5.3'
}
So a sub-question may be: How to pull these in into the other projects without duplicating the definition? (If that doesn't work automatically.)
So the solution was a bit involved. After adding 'maven-publish' to create the library, I then implemented the following to force Eclipse to use the prebuilt library:
subprojects {
// Additional configuration to manipulate the Eclipse classpaths
configurations {
parserSubstitution
}
dependencies {
parserSubstitution module("com.example:parser:${project.version}")
}
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
eclipse {
classpath {
plusConfigurations += [ configurations.pseLangSubstitution ]
file {
whenMerged { cp ->
// Get Gradle to add the depedency upon
// parser-xxx.jar via 'plusConfigurations' above.
// Then this here if we have a dependency on Project(':parser')
// - If so, remove it (completing the project -> jar substitution).
// - If not, remove the .jar dependency: it wasn't needed.
def usesParser = entries.removeAll {
it instanceof ProjectDependency && it.path.startsWith('/parser')
}
def parserJar =
cp.entries.find { it instanceof Library && it.path.contains('parser-') }
if (usesParser) {
// This trick stops Buildship deleting it from the runtime classpath
parserJar ?. entryAttributes ?. remove("gradle_used_by_scope")
} else {
cp.entries.remove { parserJar }
}
}
}
}
So there are 2 parts to this:
Using 'plusConfigurations' felt a bit round-about. I ended up doing this because I could not see how to construct class Library classpath entries directly. However it could well be that this is required to implement the 'transient dependencies' correctly anyway. (See the end of the question.)
The trick to stop Buildship removing the .jar from the runtime classpath (thus deviating from a Gradle command-line launch) was provided to me by a Gradle developer in this discussion.
Usage
The solution works just as I hoped. Every time some code in this library is modified, I execute the following task of mine on the command line (which also does some other code & resource generation steps, in addition to building the parser jar):
./gradlew generateEclipse
Then in Eclipse I press keyboard shortcuts for "Gradle -> Refresh Gradle Projects", Build.
And harmony is restored. :-)
Navigating to the (prebuilt) source of parser works.
If I need to edit the source, I can open the parser project and edit it. Scala-IDE still does a good job for this.
When I'm done I execute the command, close the project and my Java tools are happy.
In parser project
You shoud use the maven-publish plugin with the publishToMavenLocal task
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
group = 'your.company'
version = '1.0.0'
publishing {
publications {
mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
from components.java
pom.withXml {
def root = asNode()
root.appendNode('name', 'Your parser project name')
root.appendNode('description', 'Your parser project description')
}
}
}
}
Everytime you make a modification, just change the version number if necessary and go with gradle publishToMavenLocal
In other java project using parser
Just use parser as a regular dependency :
repositories {
mavenLocal()
...
}
compile 'your.company:parser:1.0.0'
If my understanding of your situation is good, it should do the trick.

File dependency Gradle

I am a gmake user transitioning to Gradle. I have a multi-project structure, where one sub-project is a Java project and the other a home-brewed language. The home-brewed language does not use any Gradle plugins. Now I want to add a task that runs a Java program to generate XML when any of my home-brewed source files have been modified. In make, I would just declare a dependency on inputFile.mine or *.mine next to the target name, but I could not easily find how to do this basic thing with Gradle. Currently, I force the task to always execute using the potentially ugly work-around below. I want to replace this with some dependsOn *.mine . The Gradle user guide has a whole chapter dedicated to explaining different ways of specifying files, but I did not see how to declare a dependency.
task generateXML(type: Exec) {
generateXML.getOutputs().upToDateWhen({false}) // Force it to execute always
executable("java.exe")
args("-jar", "resources/generateXml.jar", "src/inputFile.mine")
}
Thanks for helping a newbie out.
You can define task inputs and outputs in Gradle.
For example:
task generateXML(type: Exec) {
inputs.file ("src/inputFile.mine")
executable("java.exe")
args("-jar", "resources/generateXml.jar", "src/inputFile.mine")
}
See https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/more_about_tasks.html and https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/tasks/TaskInputs.html for more information.
Side note: When you run your build with -i, Gradle will tell you what has happened during the up-to-date check.

How to embed Java code into Gradle build using JavaExec task

I have a Gradle-driven project to which I want to add a simple Java task. This task is very specific to the project and if it can be helped I don't want to develop it as a separate plugin. So the question is can I define such custom task within the same build.gradle I'm using for my project? Or is it inevitable that I need to package it as a separate project (plugin) and install to the local repo?
Also it's probably important to note that the original project is not Java related (no other Java code needs to be build)
P.S. Based on comments below:
I would like to add src/main/java/SomeUsefulStuff.java to the existing project and have that file compiled and used as a custom task. I do understand that it needs to be compiled each time I run the build but again - the code will be small. However it will have some external dependencies such as Commons IO
Thanks to RaGe who pointed to JavaExec this turned out to be pretty simple. Here's what you do:
Put your Java code in /src/main/java just as you would in the regular Gradle-driven Java project. Make sure it has main method in the file you are going to call
Add apply plugin: 'java' to the build.gradle
If your Java code has any dependencies on 3rd party libs add these to dependencies section
Add new task section to build.gradle like so:
task usefulStuff(type: JavaExec) {
classpath = sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath
main = 'com.me.gradle.UsefulStuff'
// arguments to pass to the application
args 'OhmyGod!'
}
Now you can refer to that task as any task in your build. For example imporantTask.dependsOn usefulStuff

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