How to make plugin dependent on gradle task

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I have added plugin
id “com.github.spacialcircumstances.gradle-cucumber-reporting” to generate cucumber html reports , But I want it to run only when i execute cucumber task .this plugin calls generateCucumberReports task which runs automatically at the end of test task, I know the way to skip report generation using -PskipReports but this I need to pass from console everytime I run different task.

Is there anyway so that this plugin work only when cucumber task is call.

Thank you

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can anyone please help?

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Plugin may have an option to skip dependency registration (make pull request with fix if not!).

And then you can add dependencies as usual:

test.dependsOn(generateCucumberReports)

or

generateCucumberReports.mustRunAfter(test)

If you can’t change plugin source code try onlyIf

https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.Task.html

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Thank you, it was helpful to resolve my issue.