gradle-clippy

Static analysis to help Gradle plugin authors use latest best practises.

TaskConfigurationAvoidance

Rather than immediately creating all the tasks you need, Gradle recommends registering your task name and configuring it lazily. This results in a performance improvement because tasks that are not needed are never actually configured.

This BugChecker implements most of the recommendations in the comparison table, for example:

-project.getTasks().getByName("foo", Closure/Action)
+project.getTasks().named("foo").configure(org.gradle.api.Action)

Goals

• Don't resolve dependencies at configuration time
• Lazily configured tasks using Provider, Property etc
• Restrict the plugin implementation to Gradle's public API
• Prefer Extensions over Conventions
• Incremental tasks using @Input and @Output annotations