Custom plugin that extends external plugin

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1

Is it possible to extend a task defined in an external plugin, within a custom plugin?

I am moving my common build logic into a gradle plugin for my organization.

In a few projects, I have implemented the same task:

task jsExternalLibs(type:MinifyJsTask) {
    doLast {
         //same code in each project
    }
}

I would like to move this to the custom plugin I am building. How can I extend the MinifyJsTask from “com.eriwen.gradle.js” in my custom plugin?

2

Tasks are plain old Java classes. You can literally just extend that class with your own and add the logic you want to it.

3

I thought so…

My problem was that I needed to add “https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/” to the
repositories block, then add the plugin to the compile dependencies

Thanks!