Unable to disable caching for some task

[Tijean]

It got this error message:

| The following operations were slower to pull from the cache than to rerun:                           |
| XXXXX:dataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsDebug                                                      |

So i tried

tasks.named("<dataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsDebug>").configure {
    outputs.cacheIf { false }
}

But it failed because the task doesn't exist. I did confirm it by printing the tasks.

So i tried to put an hook inside the whenTaskAdded, but I still got the error message.

tasks.whenTaskAdded { task ->
    task.configure{outputs.cacheIf { task.name !=  'dataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsDebug'}}
}

Any solution for this? This task is a major pain for us and finding a way to reduce it would help us a lot.

[runningcode]

can you do this with tasks.withType and pass the task class?

[Tijean]

Did try

tasks.withType(com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.databinding.DataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsTask_Decorated.class)
tasks.withType(com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.databinding.DataBindingMergeDependencyArtifactsTask.class)

and both are empty.

[runningcode]

Hi, thanks for reporting.

Being able to disable caching of an individual task is not related to the Gradle Doctor plugin. Let's troubleshoot how to disable this task on the Gradle Forums: https://discuss.gradle.org/ or the Gradle community slack https://gradle.com/slack-invite

Thanks