I just upgraded to Gradle 5.0. In my `build.gradle...

# gradle

[kenkousen]

I just upgraded to Gradle 5.0. In my build.gradle.kts file, I want to specify that Kotlin compile to 1.8. I’m using the following syntax, which works, but I was wondering whether this is idiomatic or if there’s a simpler way:

tasks.withType<KotlinCompile> {
    kotlinOptions {
        jvmTarget = "1.8"
    }
}

[suresh]

yeah, seems like that’s the idiomatic way. I couldn’t find a different version.

tasks.withType<KotlinCompile>().all {
    kotlinOptions.jvmTarget = "1.8"
}

This will set the version for both main and test

[eskatos]

@kenkousen this is correct
both snippets above will do the same thing, in the latter, the .all() call is unnecessary

[gildor]

More idiomatic way would be use extension instead of task, but Kotlin plugin doesn't have it

[suresh]

@eskatos thanks. Does it applicable to both main and test kotlin compile?

[gildor]

Yes, there are 2 different overloads, one just to get all tasks by type, and another that also configure all of them