Hi. It seems I've already gotten answer for this newbie question but it's already behind the time horizon, I can't find it. What is the proper way to access existing tasks for configuring them? For example I want to add a spring profile when running application via gradle. Now I'm doing it like this:

val run: JavaExec by tasks
run.systemProperties["spring.profiles.active"] = "dev"

Second line is ok, but the first one looks like get any Task from map by name and cast it to JavaExec. Where is my strict typed model?) Or I want to run coberturaReport prior to test:

val test by tasks
val coberturaReport by tasks
test.dependsOn(coberturaReport)

Ok, no casts but still getting tasks from map by name.

And the second one can be something like this:

tasks.withType<GenerateReportTask> {
    dependsOn(tasks.withType<Test>())
}

?