Gradle-2.2-rc-1 regression: OneJar plugin fails with NullPointerException

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Using gradle-2.2-rc-1, using the OneJar plugin fails with an error:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
  * Where:
Build file 'C:\data\gradle\gradle-22-onejar\build.gradle' line: 13
  * What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'gradle-22-onejar'.
> Could not create task of type 'OneJar'.

Excerpts from stack trace:

* Exception is:
org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'gradle-22-onejar'.
 at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:54)
Caused by: org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInstantiationException: Could not create task of type 'OneJar'.
 at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.TaskFactory$1.call(TaskFactory.java:126)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
 at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject$MetaClassAdapter.hasProperty(BeanDynamicObject.java:135)
 at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject.hasProperty(BeanDynamicObject.java:102)
 at org.gradle.api.internal.CompositeDynamicObject.getProperty(CompositeDynamicObject.java:77)
 at com.github.rholder.gradle.task.OneJar_Decorated.getProperty(Unknown Source)
 at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoGetPropertySite.getProperty(PogoGetPropertySite.java:47)
 at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callGroovyObjectGetProperty(AbstractCallSite.java:231)
 at com.github.rholder.gradle.task.OneJar.<init>(OneJar.groovy:48)
 at com.github.rholder.gradle.task.OneJar_Decorated.<init>(Unknown Source)
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Hey,

many thanks for reporting this issue. It seems gradle 2.2-rc-1 accidently introduced a binary incompatibility to gradle plugins created with former gradle versions.

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Good to know – then we just wait for rc-2 :slight_smile: