Getting a gradle error when syncing without specifying a lintVariant option

[StylianosGakis]

When doing a gradle sync while I got the plugin applied to my :app module, but without specifying some removeUnusedResources {} configuration I get the error:

Can not load tasks for project ':app'

org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskContainer$TaskCreationException: Could not create task ':app:removeUnusedResources'.
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Thing is, the way I run this plugin, as seen from the docs too, is that in my CI I do ./gradlew :app:removeUnusedResources -Prur.lintVariant="debug" so I pass the lintVariant there already. When running locally I do the same, so I don't need to configure it for running it locally.

What do you think is the best approach to avoid getting this error?

• Should the plugin not try to initialize this task when the lintVariant isn't specified? (Maybe this would break running it from cli too)
• Should it not print this warning on sync?
• Should it try and default to a sane default like "debug", just like the README of this repo shows in the #Usage section?
• Should I just configure that in my gradle.kts file anyway, even if I don't use it like that?

What do you think?

[irgaly]

Thanks to reporting this issue!

This is a behavior change from v1.4.0 for supporting AGP 8 (#86), but I think this behavior is not suitable as you mentioned it.

I have fixed this problem by #90, and release v1.4.1. Please check with that version.

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steps to reproduce:

• remove lintVariant option from build.gradle.kts
• run ./gradlew :sample:tasks

% ./gradlew :sample:tasks
Type-safe project accessors is an incubating feature.
> Task :sample:tasks FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':sample:tasks'.
> Could not create task ':sample:removeUnusedResources'.
   > removeUnusedResources lintVariant or rur.lintVariant is not specified

v1.4.1 will report this error on task running:

% ./gradlew :sample:removeUnusedResources
Type-safe project accessors is an incubating feature.
> Task :sample:removeUnusedResources FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':sample:removeUnusedResources'.
> Could not determine lintResultXml file. You should set a lintVariant option or lintResultXml option directly

[StylianosGakis]

Wow yes, this looks like exactly the fix I was looking for. I just bumped our project and I no longer get this warning. Thanks a lot for the quick release too!