Hello! I want to publish some library to maven repo, but I’m new to gradle DSL. Could somebody help ...

# getting-started

[Dmytro Serdiuk]

Hello!
I want to publish some library to maven repo, but I’m new to gradle DSL.
Could somebody help me to understand this lines from the tutorial:

val javadocJar by tasks.registering(Jar::class) {
archiveClassifier.set(“javadoc”)
}

publications.withType<MavenPublication> {
// Stub javadoc.jar artifact
artifact(javadocJar.get())
}

is javadocJar a new task or already defined task?
How javadoc is triggered?

Thank you!

[Ronny Bräunlich]

registering creates a new task. See:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#using_the_container_api

You'll have to call the task yourself of attach it to some other task by using e.g. dependsOn

[Dmytro Serdiuk]

Thank you for the explanation!