According to "Toolchains for plugin authors" it should be possible to access the configured JavaToolchainSpec from within a custom task. I try to use this approach within a custom plugin which creates a task based on the presence of the JavaPlugin and queries the configured languageVersion property. Here is a minimal example.
build.gradle
plugins {
id 'application'
id 'com.example.myplugin'
}
...
java {
toolchain {
languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(17))
}
}
MyPlugin.kt
class MyPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
override fun apply(target: Project) {
target.plugins.withType<JavaPlugin> {
target.tasks.create<MyTask>("mytask")
}
}
}
MyTask.kt
abstract class MyTask : DefaultTask() {
init {
val extension = project.extensions.getByType<JavaPluginExtension>();
val languageVersion = extension.toolchain.languageVersion.get();
...
}
}
Once Gradle creates MyTask and the languageVersion property is queried, the build fails with the following error.
Cannot query the value of property 'languageVersion' because it has no value available.
My guess is that I am accessing the extension too early and it has not set its values at this time. My question now is if there is a way to wire up the configured properties (ideally with lazy mechanisms) with the task.
apparently you have to configure the toolchain object in the java plugin extension to be able to use JavaToolchainService, using something like:
java {
toolchain {
languageVersion = JavaLanguageVersion.of(11)
}
}
if you don't do that Gradle will defaults to the current JVM and the whole toolchain API will be unavailable (leaving you with the error you reported)
Related
We have a plugin which defines additional properties and adds them as extension properties, like:
project.extra["copyright"] = "Copyright ..."
Then in the build scripts, I can access this like:
project.extra["copyright"]
I'd like to just write:
project.copyright
Some Gradle plugins seem to do something like this. I can access project.sourceSets or project.kotlin even though those certainly aren't in the Project interface.
Using an IDE, I can drill into those convenience methods, which then lands me in some autogenerated code, so I know it's being autogenerated somewhere, but I haven't been able to find any clues to how to get this to happen for our own plugin. The Gradle docs mention type-safe accessors which is ultimately what allowed me to phrase the question, but the docs don't say how to add new ones.
How do we get this treatment for our own plugin?
Creating DSL-like APIS is documented here: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/implementing_gradle_plugins.html#modeling_dsl_like_apis.
It's pretty easy to do. Here's a quick guide, and some tips.
Define an extension.
import org.gradle.api.provider.Property
interface MyExtension {
val copyright: Property<String>
}
It looks pretty boring! What's important is that it's either be an abstract class, or an interface - this is so Gradle can create a new instance (see 'Managed types'), and this is where the Gradle magic begins.
Aside: I've used Property<String> instead of String, although both will work. I recommend using types compatible with Lazy Configuration.
Register the extension.
import org.gradle.api.*
abstract class MyPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
override fun apply(project: Project) {
val myExtension: MyExtension =
project.extensions.create("myPlugin", MyExtension::class.java)
}
}
This is the magic part. Simply by registering the extension against the project, Gradle will make the extension available and automatically generate Kotlin-DSL convenience methods.
Apply the plugin
// build.gradle.kts
plugins {
id("my-plugin")
}
myPlugin {
copyright.set("blah blah 2022")
}
Just like that, Gradle will generate Kotlin DSL accessors. Here's one of them:
// Accessorsajp3oxzka99ro52ctxwv0petb.kt
/**
* Configures the [myPlugin][MyExtension] extension.
*/
fun org.gradle.api.Project.`myPlugin`(configure: Action<MyExtension>): Unit =
(this as org.gradle.api.plugins.ExtensionAware).extensions.configure("myPlugin", configure)
Use the extension values
Going back to the Plugin definition, lets say you want to register your own task:
// a demo task
abstract class MyTask : DefaultTask() {
#get:Input
abstract val copyright: Property<String>
#TaskAction
fun run() {
println("Copyright is ${copyright.get()}")
}
}
(Note that this task, like the extension, is a 'managed type').
Now the custom task can be registered, and a default value for copyright set.
abstract class MyPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
override fun apply(project: Project) {
val myExtension: MyExtension = project.extensions.create("myPlugin", MyExtension::class.java)
project.tasks.register("myCustomTask", MyTask::class.java) {
copyright.set(myExtension.copyright)
}
}
}
It's good that both MyExtension and MyTask use Property<String> - the actual value will be evaluated lazily, and only if required.
Now if I run ./gradlew :myCustomTask, I see:
> Task :myCustomTask
Copyright is blah blah 2022
Further reading
What if you want to have multiple copyrights? Then you can create a configuration container
What if MyExtension has lots of properties and you want to provide them all to MyTask? Then you can use #Nested inputs
The extension properties can have default values.
I'm trying to follow the Gradle custom plugin documentation to create a plugin that can be configured.
My plugin code:
interface MyExtension {
var myValue: Property<String>
}
class MyPlugin : Plugin<Project> {
override fun apply(project: Project) {
val extension = project.extensions.create<MyExtension>("myExt")
}
}
in build.gradle.kts:
plugins {
`java-library`
}
apply<MyPlugin>()
the<MyExtension>().myValue.set("some-value")
Running this will give
Build file '<snip>/build.gradle.kts' line: 6
java.lang.NullPointerException (no error message)
Turns out the the<MyExtension>().myValue is null, so the set call fails. How do I do this correctly? Did I miss something in the documentation, or is it just wrong?
The documentation is not wrong. Properties can be managed by either you or by Gradle. For the latter, certain conditions have to be met.
Without managed properties
If you want to be completely in charge, you can instantiate any variables you declare yourself. For example, to declare a property on an extension that is an interface, it could look like this:
override fun apply(project: Project) {
val extension = project.extensions.create("myExt", MyExtension::class.java)
extension.myValue = project.objects.property(String::class.java)
}
Or you could instantiate it directly in the extension by making it a class instead:
open class MessageExtension(objects: ObjectFactory) {
val myValue: Property<String> = objects.property(String::class.java)
}
However, a property field is not really supposed to have a setter as the property itself has both a setter and a getter. So you should generally avoid the first approach and remove the setter on the second.
See here for more examples on managing the properties yourself.
With managed properties
To help you reduce boilerplate code, Gradle can instantiate the properties for you with what is called managed properties. To do use these, the property must not have a setter, and the getter should be abstract (which it implicitly is on an interface). So you could go back to your first example and fix it by changing var to val:
interface MyExtension {
val myValue: Property<String> // val (getter only)
}
Now Gradle will instantiate the field for you. The same thing works for abstract classes.
Read more about managed properties in the documentation here.
I'm running into a problem when configuring an Exec-Task using an Extension-Property.
Problem
The configuration of my Exec-Task relies on a String-Property that is defined in an extension. Unfortunately, the property is not set yet, when configuring the Exec-Task. This leads to an TaskCreationException:
Could not create task ':myTask'.
org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskContainer$TaskCreationException: Could not create task ':myTask'.
...
Caused by: org.gradle.api.internal.provider.MissingValueException: Cannot query the value of extension 'myConfig' property 'command' because it has no value available.
at org.gradle.api.internal.provider.AbstractMinimalProvider.get(AbstractMinimalProvider.java:86)
Example
abstract class ConfigExtension() {
abstract val command: Property<String>
}
class MyGradlePlugin : Plugin<Project> {
override fun apply(project: Project) {
val myConfig = project.extensions.create(
"myConfig",
ConfigExtension::class.java
)
val myTask = project.tasks.register(
"myTask",
Exec::class.java
) {
it.commandLine(myConfig.command.get())
}
}
}
The problem seems to be the myConfig.command.get() which circumvents the lazy evaluation.
Test
#Test fun `plugin registers task`() {
// Create a test project and apply the plugin
val project = ProjectBuilder.builder().build()
project.plugins.apply("com.example.plugin")
// Verify the result
assertNotNull(project.tasks.findByName("myTask"))
}
Question
Is there a way to configure the commandLine-Value in a lazy manner like gradle tasks should be configured? [1] [2]
I'm trying to follow this tutorial https://dev.to/tagmg/step-by-step-guide-to-building-web-api-with-kotlin-and-dropwizard and am instead writing my gradle.build file in Kotlin's DSL and am finding there is no direct mapping from Groovy to Kotlin and I'm now getting this error when running ./gradlew run:
(4, 1): Duplicate JVM class name 'dropwizard/tut/AppKt' generated from: package-fragment dropwizard.tut, package-fragment dropwizard.tut
plugins {
// Apply the Kotlin JVM plugin to add support for Kotlin on the JVM.
id("org.jetbrains.kotlin.jvm").version("1.3.31")
// Apply the application plugin to add support for building a CLI application.
application
}
repositories {
// Use jcenter for resolving dependencies.
// You can declare any Maven/Ivy/file repository here.
mavenCentral()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
// Use the Kotlin JDK 8 standard library.
implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8")
// Use the Kotlin test library.
testImplementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test")
// Use the Kotlin JUnit integration.
testImplementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-test-junit")
compile("io.dropwizard:dropwizard-core:1.3.14")
}
application {
// Define the main class for the application
mainClassName = "dropwizard.tut.AppKt"
}
tasks.withType<Jar> {
manifest {
attributes["Main-Class"] = application.mainClassName
}
from({
configurations.runtimeClasspath.get().filter { it.name.endsWith("jar") }.map { zipTree(it) }
})
}
tasks.named<JavaExec>("run") {
args("server", "config/local.yaml")
}
I cannot tell (yet) why this happens but to work around it add #file:JvmName("SomethingUnique") to your JVM file. Note that renaming the file will not help and lead to the same error. Only changing the output name will resolve it.
The JVM only knows how to load classes, so the Kotlin-to-JVM compiler generates classes to hold top-level val or fun declarations.
When you have two similarly named files
// src/commonMain/kotlin/com/example/Foo.kt
package com.example
val a = 1
and
// src/jvmMain/kotlin/com/example/Foo.kt
package com.example
val b = 2
the kotlin-to-JVM compiler generates
package com.example;
public class FooKt {
public static final int a = 1;
}
and
public com.example;
public class FooKt {
public static final int b = 2;
}
Obviously, these two files can't coexist in the same JVM ClassLoader, hence the error message.
Solutions involve:
As #Fleshgrinder noted, adding a file-level JvmName annotation to at least one to override the derived name, FooKt.
Renaming files to be different where possible.
Moving top-level val and fun declarations from those files into other files so Kotlin does not need to create the FooKt class.
Moving top-level val and fun declarations into objects or companion objects.
Is it possible to find all kotlin classes in a given package?
I also need only annotated classes but it's not a big deal. Any suggestions ?
Kotlin on the JVM suffers the same issue as Java in this regard due to the implementation of class loaders.
Class loaders are not required to tell the VM which classes it can provide, instead they are just handed requests for classes, and have to return a class or throw an exception.
Source and more information: Can you find all classes in a package using reflection?
To summarize the linked thread, there are a number of solutions that allow you to inspect your current class path.
The Reflections library is pretty straight forward and has a lot of additional functionality like getting all subtypes of a class, get all types/members annotated with some annotation, optionally with annotation parameters matching, etc.
Guava has ClassPath, which returns ClassInfo POJO's - not enough for your use case, but useful to know as Guava is available almost everywhere.
Write your own by querying classloader resources and code sources. Would not suggest this route unless you absolutely cannot add library dependencies.
Here's an example of querying classloader resources, adapted from https://www.javaworld.com/article/2077477/java-tip-113--identify-subclasses-at-runtime.html
Requires Java 8 or higher.
// Call this function using something like:
// findClasses("com.mypackage.mysubpackage")
// Modified from https://www.javaworld.com/article/2077477/java-tip-113--identify-subclasses-at-runtime.html
fun findClasses(pckgname: String) {
// Translate the package name into an absolute path
var name = pckgname
if (!name.startsWith("/")) {
name = "/$name"
}
name = name.replace('.', '/')
// Get a File object for the package
val url: URL = Launcher::class.java.getResource(name)
val directory = File(url.getFile())
println("Finding classes:")
if (directory.exists()) {
// Get the list of the files contained in the package
directory.walk()
.filter { f -> f.isFile() && f.name.contains('$') == false && f.name.endsWith(".class") }
.forEach {
val fullyQualifiedClassName = pckgname +
it.canonicalPath.removePrefix(directory.canonicalPath)
.dropLast(6) // remove .class
.replace('/', '.')
try {
// Try to create an instance of the object
val o = Class.forName(fullyQualifiedClassName).getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance()
if (o is MyInterfaceOrClass) {
println(fullyQualifiedClassName)
// Optionally, make a function call here: o.myFunction()
}
} catch (cnfex: ClassNotFoundException) {
System.err.println(cnfex)
} catch (iex: InstantiationException) {
// We try to instantiate an interface
// or an object that does not have a
// default constructor
} catch (iaex: IllegalAccessException) {
// The class is not public
}
}
}
}