How can I disable the GradleTaskWarmUpService when...

# intellij

[hfhbd]

How can I disable the GradleTaskWarmUpService when syncing a Kotlin gradle project? I have some Test tasks that need specific grade properties (secrets) that are not available locally, but IntelliJ always tries to warm-up the tasks by configuration them during sync.

[Tanja Stojiljkovic]

Couldn't find a documented toggle specifically for GradleTaskWarmUpService — it's part of the mechanism that populates the Gradle task list/run configuration dropdown, so I wouldn't recommend disabling it even if a way existed.
Better fix: instead of eagerly reading secrets in task configuration (System.getenv(...) / project.findProperty(...) directly), use the Provider API so it's evaluated lazily:

tasks.test {
    environment("SECRET_KEY", providers.environmentVariable("SECRET_KEY").orElse(""))
}

This only gets evaluated at task execution time, not during sync/configuration, so the warm-up won't fail on missing secrets.
If you need a quick workaround in the meantime: IntelliJ sets the system property idea.sync.active=true during sync, so you can guard the eager code:

if (System.getProperty("idea.sync.active") != "true") {
    // secret-dependent config
}

[hfhbd]

Thats exactly what I do, but IntelliJ (as very often in the past) does wrongly configure the tasks eagerly:

tasks.test {
    environment("SECRET_KEY", providers.environmentVariable("SECRET_KEY"))
}

I do want to not add a default value, because I need the value to be present when I run the task, but IntelliJ should not configure the task during sync.

[Tanja Stojiljkovic]

You reported this: IDEA-377887 (youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-377887). Have you tried Roman's suggestion — reset IDE cache + Gradle User Home, then retest? Comment result on ticket, that reopens it.