How can I publish a custom POM produced by a custom task?

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The Griffon project can consume specialized BOM files that define plugin dependencies, thus a Griffon plugin must generate such BOM files. We currently have a custom task that performs such work given the particular conventions of Griffon plugin dependencies

https://github.com/griffon/griffon/blob/development/subprojects/gradle-griffon-build-plugin/src/main/groovy/org/codehaus/griffon/gradle/tasks/GenerateBomTask.groovy

The problem now is to find a way to publish this BOM to Bintray, preferably using the maven-publish and bintray plugins. How then should we configure the ‘publications’ block so that the BOM file created by there ‘generateBom’ task is uploaded?

TIA Andres

2

For the moment I’m forcing the MAvenPublication to have no artifacts, then overwrite the generated default pom with my own BOM, like this

publishing {
    publications {
        mavenBom(MavenPublication) {
            artifacts = []
        }
    }
}
  publishToMavenLocal.dependsOn generateBom
  gradle.taskGraph.whenReady { g ->
    Task generatePom = gradle.taskGraph.allTasks.find { it.name == 'generatePomFileForMavenBomPublication' }
    generatePom.doLast {
        copy {
            into project.file("${buildDir}/publications/mavenBom")
            from generateBom.outputDir
            rename generateBom.outputFile.name, 'pom-default.xml'
        }
    }
}

I wonder if there’s an easier way to do this.

3

Unfortunately, there’s nothing much nicer. I’d probably use:

tasks.withType(GenerateMavenPom) { Task generatePom ->
    generatePom.doLast {
        ...
    }
}