On 21/07/2011, at 5:42 AM, Levi Yourchuck wrote:
> How can one invoke a task from within an Action of another task?
You can't. If you _need_ to do this, model the thing-to-do as a closure var or
method in the build script and have the action call that.
> How can one invoke a task from within a groovy method?
You shouldn't, there is no supported way.
> A couple days ago someone asked about the need to have a non blocking
> invocation of a task and I posted to this list that they should try something
> like this:
>
> new Thread( { yourTask.execute() } ).start()
>
> I don't know if that solved their issue but I heard back that this was
> something to avoid, because it may be impossible in a future revision. I am
> wondering what can be done in it's place? Is there an API to interact with
> to accomplish this?
If you are trying to execute tasks yourself you are fighting Gradle and
bypassing a lot of what it is doing.
--
Luke Daley
Principal Engineer, Gradleware
http://gradleware.com
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