Type-safe accessor for plugin added artifacts

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Hello,
I have a custom Gradle plugin which adds a configuration and artifact to the project.
Is it possible to reference such an artifact from the project’s build.gradle.kts in a type-safe manner?

publishing {
    publications {
        create<MavenPublication>("myPublication") {
            groupId = "com.acme"
            version = "1.0.0"
            artifactId = "myArtifact"
            // TODO (rodedb): Is there no way to make this typesafe by referencing the existing artifact directly?
            artifact(project.layout.buildDirectory.dir("dist").get().file("my-artifact.tar"))
        }
    }
}

Thank you.

2

I think what you want is artifact(tasks.distTar).
That should then also imply the necessary task dependency.

3

Thanks for the reply.

So this is basically like saying that the artifact will be the distTar task’s output?

4

Exactly. And it is always preferable to write outputs to inputs instead of configuring paths.

5

Understood. Thanks again.

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