I'm currently struggling with type errors, as in: <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/lazy_co...

# gradle

[Bernhard]

I'm currently struggling with type errors, as in: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/lazy_configuration.html#working_with_files_in_lazy_properties fails with a compilation error: Line 185: releaseZip = layout.buildDirectory.file("release.zip")
^ Type mismatch: inferred type is ProviderRegularFile!! but RegularFileProperty was expected

I'm not sure if this is caused by using kotlin 2.0 but still having 1.9 in kotlin-dsl:
The embedded-kotlin and kotlin-dsl plugins rely on features of Kotlin 1.9.24 that might work differently than in the requested version 2.0.20.

Edit: got it: it seems that there's compiler magic at work; only gets generated correctly when using val, not var

[Vampire]

Exactly. 🙂
There is a compile plugin that lets use assignment operator on val in specially prepared cases like Property<>. 🙂

[Bernhard]

such a pain xD

[Vampire]

?!?

[Bernhard]

I mean I guess it's great that it works, but it's not discoverable

[Vampire]

Well, complain to the IDE about that I guess?
Or maybe to the Kotlin compile which could maybe say "if this were val it would have worked"?
🤷‍♂️

[Bernhard]

exactly

[Bernhard]

on a language level, it looks like you'd want a delegated property

[Vampire]

It is a built-in compile plugin developed by JetBrains after cooperating with the Gradle folks on how to best solve the use-case, so I'd guess it is exactly the right solution 🙂

[Bernhard]

agreed

[Bernhard]

on a related note, I'm struggling with gradle documentation pretty frequently, what are you reading to stay up to date or get into how things work?

[Vampire]

Imho the Gradle documentation is a great piece of work, especially compared to how software projects often are documented - or not - otherwise.

How I personally stay up to date is looking at the release notes to get the diff of what's new.
But I use Gradle since pre-1.0 phase, so you can say I'm grown up with it. 😄

[Vampire]

Actually, how I often learn new things about Gradle I didn't know yet is, by helping other users solving their problems. 😄

[Bernhard]

I see, thank you 🙂