Hey Ben
It looks like SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter will only skip the task if
_all_ source file inputs are empty. So maybe it's a matter of configuring
your task so that some of the other inputs are considered a "source" input.
This could be done by adding @SkipWhenEmpty to one of your other inputs, or
using Task.getInputs().source().
Worth a try, anyway.
Daz



On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:15 PM, bmuschko <benjamin.musc...@gradleware.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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