Is it possible to partial override clean task?

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I have multi-project build. I collecting all my generated jar in one place by redefined the destinationDir :

tasks.withType(Jar) {
  //define directory where the archive is generated into
  destinationDir = "new/location"
  }

It’s working fine, but

the clean task doesn’t ‘know’ the new location. As result, the generated jar not cleaned by clean task. What is best solution for it? Can I partial override task? Or just create my new clean task?

2

Hello Cincy

you can configure additional custom locations to the clean task:

clean{
    delete "new/location"
}

hope that helps.

cheers,

René

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3

:frowning:

I got:

as a task with that name already exists or

Could not find method clean()

I’m using ‘clean’ task from java plugin. I would like use all that exit in it plus cleaning new location. How I can do it?

4

can you show your whole build.gradle file? “task with that name already exists” is likely thrown because you create a new task instead of configuring an existing one. ensure that the baseplugin (or the java plugin) is applied before adding the script above.

5

build.gradle

project(':antBuild').ext.antBuildFlag = true
  allprojects {
   project.ext.libDir = "$rootDir/lib/"
}
  configure(allprojects.findAll { it.hasProperty("antBuildFlag") == false } ) {
 //applying only for project that using java plugin
 apply from: "$rootDir/dep.gradle"
   }
    subprojects {
 tasks.withType(Jar) {
  //define directory where the archive is generated into
  destinationDir = file(libDir)
  }
}
      project(':A') {
 dependencies {
  compile rootProject.files(
  '${libDir}/abc.jar')
     }
}
    project(':B') {
 dependencies {
  compile project(':A')
 }
}
    project(':antBuild') {
 ant.importBuild 'build.xml'
    task build {
  dependsOn 'runbuild1'
//from build.xml
 }
}

$rootDir/dep.gradle

apply plugin: 'java'
  sourceSets.main.java.exclude('**/not_include/**')
    def currentJvm = org.gradle.internal.jvm.Jvm.current()
def gradleVersion = gradle.gradleVersion
  jar.manifest.attributes("Implementation-Title": "Gradle, v" + gradleVersion, "Created-By": currentJvm)
      dependencies {
 compile rootProject.files(
   ...
  )
 }
6

changing your subproject section in your build.gradle file should do the trick:

...
subprojects {
    tasks.withType(Jar) {
        //define directory where the archive is generated into
        destinationDir = file(libDir)
        }
}
...
7

Not sure what is difference between the section you quieted and mine…It’s same In this situation the ‘clean’ task is cleaning only build folder, but not the jar file

8

It’s work if add it to configure - since ant project doesn’t have property ‘clean’ :

configure(allprojects.findAll { it.hasProperty("antBuildFlag") == false } ) {
 //applying only for project that using java plugin
        apply from: "$rootDir/dep.gradle"
          clean << {
   ....
  }
   }

Thank you for the help!