Is it possible to get access to the value of the Gradle build cache key? In short, I need to utilize a unique version marker – a build fingerprint of sorts. The Gradle build cache would already be turned on. It would be extremely convenient if I could just report out the Gradle build cache key, r…

Hi Bob, the build cache key only is in place for a single task, so not for the whole build. So you would need to somehow create a task which takes all the inputs of the build as an input. That does not sound very desirable. How about you use the git commit id as version for the published artifact? …

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Stefan_Wolf (Stefan Wolf) April 6, 2018, 6:41am 2

Hi Bob,

it is currently not possible to access the build cache key for a task. What would you do with the version marker? Put it in the jar file? Choose the file name of the Jar file based on the version marker?

Cheers,
Stefan

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