Hey Alex,
This could be a bug. Configuring the output dirs should be possible - check
out this integ test:
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/tooling-api/src/integTest/groovy/org/gradle/integtests/tooling/m5/ToolingApiIdeaModelCrossVersionSpec.groovy#L111
Cheers!
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Radim Kubacki
<radim.kuba...@gradleware.com>wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> I am not sure what you want to achieve / why you want to access these
> values. What I think is the expected behavior here is:
>
> - no inheritOutputDirs or true creates .iml saying that output dirs are
> inherited from project settings
> - inheritOutputDirs set to false and no output dirs will tell IDEA to use
> project specific output dirs and IDEA or user will set exact location
> - inheritOutputDirs set to false and output dirs tells IDEA that this
> module should use specific dirs for its outputs.
>
> IMO if you are looking for classes from some library inside your AS plugin
> you should be able to query IJ API. And if they should be separated from
> classes built by android project/library then set inheritOutputDirs to
> false and optionally specify folders.
>
> -Radim
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Alex Ruiz <alr...@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> In Android Studio we set up a Gradle-based Android project by first
>> getting the structure of the project from Gradle (IDEA's infrastructure
>> gets a org.gradle.tooling.model.idea.IdeaProject using the Gradle tooling
>> API.)
>>
>> We currently have a problem when setting up Java-only library modules
>> (non-Android.) The problem is that when we get an IdeaCompilerOutput from
>> an IdeaModule, the output paths are null. The only way I can get it return
>> a value is by adding this to a build.gradle file:
>>
>> apply plugin: 'idea'
>>
>> idea {
>> module {
>> inheritOutputDirs = false
>> outputDir = file('muchBetterOutputDir')
>> testOutputDir = file('muchBetterTestOutputDir')
>> }
>> }
>>
>> Even setting up the output path in the Gradle Java plug-in as follows:
>>
>> sourceSets.main.output.classesDir = file('muchBetterClassesDir')
>>
>> has no effect on IdeaCompilerOutput.
>>
>> Is this the expected behavior? I originally thought this was a bug, but
>> if this the expected behavior, and given that there is no Java model (like
>> the Android model the Android plug-in provides,) what would make more sense:
>> 1. Us writing our own Java model (IntelliJ already has something like
>> this and we could extend it,)
>> or
>> 2. Have this functionality provided by Gradle
>> ?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>> -Alex
>>
>>
>
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