Question

I tried following the answer here

how to override a task making it depend on one of mine in gradle

but it fails with

Could not find property ‘setupAll’ on task set.

I have tried a few things

1. Make the task in subprojects section depend on master:copyJars but that fails
2. The below solution
3. stripped off the tasks which didn’t work.

I have only ONE build.gradle file and the settings.gradle file. The settings gradle file is

include 'master', 'toneserver','webserver'

The master build.gradle file is(SPECIFICALLY, search for the two instances of setupAll as somehow there is something wrong with that)

//NOTE: Currently this file is for dependency management only but we would like
// to convert all of the build to gradle from the ant files.  We needed to add dependency 
// management so did so with gradle first as a first step in the process of evolution

allprojects {
    apply plugin: 'java'
    apply plugin: 'eclipse'

    buildDir = 'output'

    task hello << { task -> println "I'm $task.project.name" }
    build << { task -> println "MASTER: I'm building now classpath=$sourceSets.main.compileClasspath.files" }
}

project(':toneserver') {
    dependencies {
        compile fileTree(dir: 'play-1.2.4/framework/lib', include: '*.jar')
        compile fileTree(dir: 'play-1.2.4/framework', include: '*.jar')

        compile project(':master')
        compile project(':webserver')
    }

    task eclipse(overwrite: true) {
    }

}

project(':webserver') {
    dependencies {
        compile fileTree(dir: 'play-1.2.4/framework/lib', include: '*.jar')
        compile fileTree(dir: 'play-1.2.4/framework', include: '*.jar')

        compile project(':master')
    }

    //playframework has it's own generation of .classpath and .project fils so do not 
    //overwrite their versions
    task eclipse(overwrite: true) {
    }
}

project(':master') {
    project.ext.genLibDir = file('lib')
    project.ext.fixedLibDir = file('libother')

    repositories {
         mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        compile group: 'org.hibernate',   name: 'hibernate-entitymanager', version: '4.1.4.Final'
        compile group: 'org.slf4j',       name: 'slf4j-api',               version: '1.6.6'
        compile group: 'org.slf4j',       name: 'log4j-over-slf4j',        version: '1.6.6'
        compile group: 'ch.qos.logback',  name: 'logback-core',            version: '1.0.6'
        compile group: 'joda-time',       name: 'joda-time',               version: '2.1'
        compile group: 'com.google.inject',name: 'guice',                  version: '3.0'
        compile group: 'com.google.protobuf',name: 'protobuf-java',        version: '2.4.1'


        //to be erased soon
        compile group: 'commons-configuration',name:'commons-configuration',version: '1.8'
        compile group: 'org.jboss.netty', name: 'netty',                   version: '3.2.7.Final'

        //compile group: 'org.asteriskjava',name: 'asterisk-java',         version: '1.0.0.M3'            
        compile fileTree(dir: project.ext.fixedLibDir, include: '*.jar')
    }

    task('copyJars') { 
        ext.collection = files { genLibDir.listFiles() }
        delete ext.collection
        copy { from configurations.compile into genLibDir }
        copy { from fixedLibDir into genLibDir }
    }

        tasks.setupAll.dependsOn(copyJars)
}

subprojects {
    version = 'Developer-Build'

    //configurations.compile {
    //  exclude group: 'javax.jms',        module: 'jms'
    //  exclude group: 'com.sun.jdmk',     module: 'jmxtools'
    //  exclude group: 'com.sun.jmx',      module: 'jmxri'
    //}

    task('setupAll', dependsOn: ['eclipse']) {
        description = 'Update jars from remote repositories and then fix eclipse classpath for master project'

    }

    hello << {println "- I depend on stserver"}

    build << { println "subproject:source sets=$sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs" }
}

task release << { println "putting together release" }

//TODO: have a release task AND if version is null when running the release task
//throw an exception telling the user to pass in a version with "./build -Dversion=xxxx"
//The automated build will call the release task with a version number like that
gradle.taskGraph.whenReady {taskGraph ->
    if (taskGraph.hasTask(release) && version == 'Developer-Build') {
        throw new StopExecutionException("You must specify -Dversion=<some version> to run the release task")
    } else {
        version = '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
    }
}

What is going on with this? Overriding tasks to depend on other stuff should work pretty easily I though(maybe that syntax is still wrong?)

thanks,
Dean

Answer 1

never mind, stupid mistake, forgot my task was in subprojects and should be outside and needed a : as well so new setupAll is outside subprojects and is

task('setupAll', dependsOn: [':master:copyJars', 'eclipse']) {
    description = 'Update jars from remote repositories and then fix eclipse classpath for master project'

}