So I have a few tasks that do essentially the same thing but with different values, e.g., task tarArtifact (type: Tar) { compression = Compression.GZIP from "foobar" into "newfoobar" extension = "tar.gz" baseName = "MyArtifact" version = "${project.artifactVersion}" } tarArtifact.depen…

Mark, thanks for the suggestion, that looks exactly like what I needed but when I tried it, I got the error Cannot add task ':tarFooBarArtifact' as a task with that name already exists. I added a StackTraceElement call to see why it’s being called twice and got this called by defaultCall called b…

Could you post the bit of your build script where you are calling the method?

Sure, here’s the snippet publications { Module1(MavenPublication) { groupId "..." artifactId "Module1" version "..." artifact tarArtifactTask("sourcepath", "destpath", "${project.ArtifactName}", xcodebuildDebug) } Let me know if you n…

That second call sounds like it’s calling itself which doesn’t seem right. I wasn’t able to reproduce this error locally. Can you post your tarArtifactTask() method implementation?

Yeah, that’s what it looked like to me too, it’s your code verbatim with StackTraceElement code included, here it is def tarArtifactTask(fromDir, toDir, baseName, buildTask) { StackTraceElement[] stackTraceElements = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace() println "called by " + stackTraceElements…

Looks like we’ll have to rename the baseName argument to something unique. Also, I’m assuming you are configuring multiple publications. In that case you’ll have to pass something unique for baseName as project.ArtifactName will create multiple tasks of the same name.

Yeah, that fixed the problem but now I get a new error A problem occurred configuring root project 'Example'. > Exception thrown while executing model rule: org.gradle.api.publish.plugins.PublishingPlugin$Rules#publishing(org.gradle.api.plugins.ExtensionContainer) > Could not find property 'base…

Your task name should use the new artifactName argument. "tar${artifactName}Artifact"

Oops, my bad, I fixed that but now got the same original error where tarArtifactTask called itself called by defaultCall called by tarArtifactTask > Cannot add task ':tarFooBarArtifact' as a task with that name already exists. Revised code def tarArtifactTask(fromDir, toDir, artifactName, bui…

And you’re certain you’re passing unique values for the artifactName argument? I tested this locally with multiple publications and it works. I get the same results from the StackTraceElement. I would add some println statements to show what arguments are being passed to the method call to help debu…

Passing arguments to a task

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Ok let me look into that tomorrow, gotta run now, will keep you posted. Thanks again for your help.

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