Is there any way to rename an existing task?

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Hello,

I’d like to add test targets for a few other types of sources, such as javascript, to a project that already has the java plugin applied. Is it possible to rename the ‘test’ target the java plugin provides to ‘testJava’ ? I’d like for ‘test’ to just have dependencies to the language specific test tasks.

Overriding the existing test task won’t work because I don’t want to get rid of the previous task, and I don’t know of any way to refer to the “super” task once overriden.

Thanks!

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There is no API for renaming tasks. You’d have to write your own replacement for the Java plugin. Instead I’d name the new, aggregating task differently, for example ‘allTest’.

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Thanks! That’s what I figured, but thought I’d ask just on the off-chance I was wrong :slight_smile: