How to omit attributes not defined by user in Ant task execution?

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Hi,

I’m working on a Gradle plugin which internally uses already existing Ant task. Some properties are optional in Ant task (the default value is used). I don’t want to define my own default values and use it when not defined by user in build.gradle, but rather use those from Ant by omitting a parameter when calling Ant task.

Example (inside AntBuilder):

ant.someTask(required1: "required1", optional1: "optional1") //in case an optional attribute is defined in a configuration
  ant.someTask(required1: "required1") //in case an optional attribute is not defined

I know how to do it with nested elements, but how to work with tag attributes?

Regards Marcin

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Are you saying that simply omitting the optional parameter (as in your second line) doesn’t work?

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Thanks for your reply. No, I didn’t describe my problem precisely enough.

The original problem was to pragmatically don’t pass a property to Ant when it is not set in Gradle. Later I realized that it is just a map and can do something like that:

def map = [:]
map[ "required1" ] = getRequired1()
map[ "optional1" ] = getOptional1()
ant.someTask(map.findAll( {it.value != null} )

to filter out a properties with null value and it seems to work fine, but I faced another problem.

Optional property can be set by end-developer in his/her build.gradle, but if not I would like to keep there null value to allow to filter it out later from a map passed to ant. Unfortunately when I pass null value to a property defined in a task as @Input I’ve got “No value has been specified for property ‘optional1’.” error.

Can I define @Input in a task as optional (make a promise to Gradle to take care about potential null values)?

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Can I define @Input in a task as optional (make a promise to Gradle to take care about potential null values)?

You can use ‘@Optional’.

5

Great. I was looking for a “optional” attribute in an annotation and did think about another annotation :).

Thanks for your help.