…but somehow, `from(compileJava)` is not working. Any advice?

# gradle

[x80486]

…but somehow, from(compileJava) is not working. Any advice?

[Czar]

task<Zip>("distribution") {
    dependsOn("jar")

    archiveFileName.set("${project.name}.zip")
    from(tasks.compileJava)
    from(tasks.processResources)
    into("lib") {
        from(configurations.runtimeClasspath)
    }
}

[x80486]

It looks like it doesn’t understand `tasks.compileJava`:

* What went wrong:
Script compilation error:

  Line 159:     from(tasks.compileJava)
                           ^ Unresolved reference. None of the following candidates is applicable because of receiver type mismatch:
                               public val TaskContainer.compileJava: TaskProvider<JavaCompile> defined in org.gradle.kotlin.dsl

1 error

[Czar]

which version of gradle are you using?

[x80486]

What I don’t fully understand is why from(processResources) works fine…

[x80486]

I’m using `5.4.1`…and it’s a Java project (not Kotlin)

[Czar]

worked for me in 5.2.1, I'll try 5.4.1, just a sec

[Czar]

works in 5.4.1, too. Strange that it does not work for you.

[Czar]

when you ctrl click from does it bring up org.gradle.api.tasks.AbstractCopyTask ?

[x80486]

Yeah…

[x80486]

The reason I didn’t need tasks. is because task<Zip>("distribution") itself is inside the tasks block…

[Czar]

ah. ok.

[Czar]

what about lazy method:

tasks {
    register<Zip>("distribution") {
        dependsOn("jar")

        archiveFileName.set("${project.name}.zip")
        from(compileJava)
        from(processResources)
        into("lib") {
            from(configurations.runtimeClasspath)
        }
    }
}

[x80486]

I tried that one also…

[Czar]

Something weird is going on here, both versions work in my test project. The last one is the best practice as I understand it in terms of tasks configuration.

[Czar]

I'd double check versions of everything first, then go through whole build script to see if something could be interfering, but I fail to imagine what could it be aside from gradle version.

[x80486]

Yeah…let me see…thanks for the help! 👏

[Czar]

Good Luck!

[gildor]

Most probably you don’t have those type-safe accessors because do not use plugins {} block with applied java plugin. To use them you have to use:

plugins {
  java // or kotlin("jvm")
}

If you use plugin.apply it will not work

[x80486]

I'm using the java plugin in the plugins { } block, as you stated, slightly different (like: id("org.gradle.java")), but it's there...

[x80486]

It looks like from(compileJava) doesn't have any effect; it generates the ZIP file, but with no classes, just the first segment of the package declaration(s) as a folder: com/

[gildor]

So it actually available, because above you showed an error that says that this accessor is not available