what’s the recommend way to prompt a user for input?

# gradle

[Bernhard]

what’s the recommend way to prompt a user for input?

[ribesg]

How is that related to Kotlin

[Bernhard]

I can’t use System.console() and I’m unsure if there is anything similar because readLine() and gradle output are kinda weird

[gildor]

Are you talking about prompt user for Gradle task or for your application which you run with Gradle?

[Bernhard]

@gildor I want to create an initProject task which generates a dev profile spring boot

[Bernhard]

prompts a few values like: where are uploaded files stored

[Bernhard]

Ideally I could just get gradle to interactively prompt the console paramters annotated via @Input

[Bernhard]

via flag

[tapchicoma]

console is available if you will run gradle without daemon mode enabled.
Other workaround would be trigger some UI (search in internet - stumbled around this solution some time ago)
And last possible way is to use kotlin script (not gradle one), see https://github.com/Tapchicoma/ktsexec-gradle. Note that this ktsexec task is experimental as kotlin script is currently actively developed and in next release it would changed quite a lot.

[tapchicoma]

for this type of questions - better to ask in Gradle slack workspace, see channel topic