Hi, I am dealing with a custom task that extends org.gradle.api.tasks.bundling.AbstractArchiveTask. The concrete use case is to support other packaging types like Debian and RPM. For this specific implementation, it is required that the archive can be created even if no source files are declared (other inputs are declared in the subclass).
At the moment this is not possible as the method AbstractCopyTask.getSource() is annotated with @SkipWhenEmpty (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/RB_1.12/subprojects/core/src/main/groovy/org/gradle/api/tasks/AbstractCopyTask.java#L92) which will mark the task UP-TO-DATE if it doesn't declare at least one from statement. Is there a way for subclasses of AbstractCopyTask to avoid SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter from kicking in? I tried overriding the method. However, that didn't help as the annotation from AbstractCopyTask is still parsed. Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Ben -- View this message in context: http://gradle.1045684.n5.nabble.com/Allow-subclass-of-AbstractCopyTask-to-execute-task-action-without-declared-sources-tp5712928.html Sent from the gradle-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
