Is there a workaround for the

Calling non-final function 'function' in constructor

warning when configuring subclasses of Gradle tasks? For example:

open class ChildJavaExec: JavaExec() {
    init {
         workingDir("foo/bar")
    }
}

Not sure if I should just ignore it? Tasks need to be non-final in order for Gradle to inject and construct them.

There is this tidbit in docs: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/classes.html#derived-class-initialization-order Which explains why it's dangerous to do it. If you're fine with it, you can ignore. The risk is always there but it doesn't always matter.

Agreed, I was already aware of why this is a bad pattern and is being linted. I suppose the workaround in this particular case is to explicitly call that method in the parent with

super