The documentation at <https://kotlin.github.io/dokka/1.4.20/user_guide/gradle/usage/#configuration-o...

# dokka

[eygraber]

The documentation at https://kotlin.github.io/dokka/1.4.20/user_guide/gradle/usage/#configuration-options says to use the following to specify the output directory:

outputDirectory.set(buildDir.resolve("dokka"))

But I keep getting an error using Gradle 6.8.3:

A problem occurred configuring project ':common'.
> Could not create task ':common:androidJavadocsJar'.
   > Could not create task of type 'AndroidJavadocsJar'.
      > Could not create task ':common:dokkaHtml'.
         > No signature of method: java.io.File.resolve() is applicable for argument types: (String) values: [dokka]

[Lukas K-G]

I think it assumes that buildDir is of type Path. 🤔

[Marcin Aman]

Thats weird, are you using kts or groovy?

[eygraber]

Groovy

[Marcin Aman]

Uh, I realised that resolve is an extension method from kotlin. I think that If you want to use something similar in groovy you would need to fallback to strings concatenation