Pass a directory which is not created yet in configuration step

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task doSomething (type: ProduceFilesTaskType) {
   outDir = file("$projectDir/some/files")
}

task mytask (type: ConsumerFilesTaskType) {
   fileList = file("$doSomething.outDir/somefolders/").listFiles().toList() // null pointer exception
}

The ConsumeFilesTaskType in above example takes in a List<File> fileList which I am producing with first task. Now because these files don’t exist yet, gradle fails at configuration stage with error Cannot invoke method toList() on null object

What should I do?

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Do you control the implementation of ConsumerFilesTaskType such that you can modify it?

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No, I don’t. This is the reason I am asking for a way.