Create a SourceSet only for resources?

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1

I created my own source set to define some resources, which are the input of a custom task.

sourceSets {
    mySourceSet
}

As I can see, this definition automatically creates a task compileMySourceSetJava. Since this source set will only contain resources and no Java code, these automatically created tasks to compile Java sources are not really needed.

Is there a way to define a source set as resource-only?
Am I misusing the source set concept and should use something different?

2

While the extra compile task does technically impact performance, due to fact that it exists, the task should never do anything since there is no source. Unless you’ve got a very large number of these tasks and they’re are causing a noticeable amount of build time, I would simply leave them be.

Is there a specific issue they’re causing for you?

3

We currently have no issue with it. I was primarily just trying to remove some cognitive load as these tasks also appear in the IntelliJ gradle model, so I was just wondering if there was an easy way to simply remove them.

So, like you suggest I will simply leave them be.

4

Have you tried this
https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet.html#N19D52

you can do

sourceSets {
main {
resources {
}
}
}