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 >
