Adding dynamic tasks to group

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Hi, so I have a setup where I dynamically create tasks depending on some build variants. If another build variant is added then a task will automatically be created for it.

pseudo code:

for all variants in dir do {
task “$variant”(type:exec, dependsOn:‘unzipDeps’) {
outputs.dir
workingDir
commandline
}
}

Now I would like all these tasks to be added to a group. If I create the tasks statically it is easy with just
taskName.group = “CustomBuild”

But this doesnt seem to work when I do it like this. Even if I create another task which depends on this task generation I just get different errors like the name of the task is a string and the property group doesnt exist and others… My first try was something like this:

for all variants in dir do {
task “$variant”(type:exec, dependsOn:‘unzipDeps’) {
outputs.dir
workingDir
commandline
}
"$variant".group = “CustomTask”
}

But alas no luck… Any one got an idea?

2

If your code is really structured like that, you might as well set the group as you create the task, not immediately after in the same loop (I’ve modified your pseudo-code to be working, stand-alone code):

ext.variants = ['alpha', 'beta', 'delta']
  
for (def variant in variants) {
    task "$variant"(type: Exec) {
        commandLine 'echo', variant
        group = 'CustomBuild'
    }
}

If there’s some reason you want to keep this out of the task declaration, your original attempt needs to be prefixed with tasks. In the non-dynamic case, you’re accessing a property that’s a task instance. In the dynamic case, you just have a GString that can be resolved, but you can’t get a task instance from that directly. You need to lookup a task with that dynamic name. tasks."$variant" gets you the instance that you can then set a property on.

ext.variants = ['alpha', 'beta', 'delta']
  
for (def variant in variants) {
    task "$variant"(type: Exec) {
        commandLine 'echo', variant
    }
    tasks."$variant".group = 'CustomBuild'
}
3

Thank you for such a simple solution :slight_smile: