When you get this working, could you put something about how into the
cookbook? I think common javadocs for a mulitproject sounds like something
others, myself included, might need to do as well.
http://gradle.codehaus.org/Cookbook

thanks,
Philip


On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Spencer Allain <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm playing with the infamous all-subprojects javadocs again, as my
> original changes for 0.9 ceased to function with preview release 3.
>
> Arguably, I was not doing things the correct way in the first place, but it
> was interesting to discover why it no longer works.
>
> alljavadoc.doFirst()
> {
>   Javadoc task ->
>   task.project.subprojects.each  {
>     Project subproject ->
>
>     task.source = task.source + subproject.javadoc.source
>     task.classpath = task.classpath + subproject.javadoc.classpath
>   }
> }
>
> Now I get "Cause: Cannot invoke method plus() on null object"
>
> Not sure if this is a DSL or groovy version change, or what.
>
> Anyway, in attempting to find a uniform way of adding to the values, it
> seems that source and classpath are both set to null objects (at least as
> visible via the implicit get() methods).
>
> Is there a reason that list-type objects are initialized to null (or in the
> case of source within SourceTask made to appear to be null) instead of
> treated as empty collections?  I suspect it might be for performance
> reasons, or maybe just a style reason, but it seems inconsistent with many
> other collections that are initialized to empty instead of null.
>
> -Spencer
>

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