Adding `tasks.whenTaskAdded` breaks the output-metadata.json generation

[aminecmi]

Hello,

My app uses the legacy view based UI, and it worked great until I added a tasks.whenTaskAdded {} block in my build.gradle.kts file.

Since then, the view is blank, and the logcat reads

E Invalid resource ID 0x00000000.
E Unable to retrieve library information given the `raw` resource identifier. 
E Please make sure either the gradle plugin is properly set up, or the file is manually provided. 
I Could not retrieve libraries
E Unable to read the library information 
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Please provide the required library data via the available APIs.
Depending on the platform this can be done for example via `LibsBuilder().withJson()`.
For Android there exists an `LibsBuilder.withContext()`, automatically loading the `aboutlibraries.json` file from the `raw` resources folder.
When using compose or other parent modules, please check their corresponding APIs.
at com.mikepenz.aboutlibraries.Libs$Builder.build(Libs.kt:44)
at com.mikepenz.aboutlibraries.viewmodel.LibsViewModel$listItems$1$1.invokeSuspend(LibsViewModel.kt:100)
at kotlin.coroutines.jvm.internal.BaseContinuationImpl.resumeWith(ContinuationImpl.kt:33)

I tried tinkering with the gradle file, but this does not change anything.

Is there a fix for this ?

This is what I tried. Using taskTree plugin, the output of both with and without seemed the same, but the issue stayed the same.

tasks.whenTaskAdded {
    // MY CODE HERE

    /* if (this.name == "mergeGithubConfigDebugResources" ||
         this.name == "packageGithubConfigDebugResources" ||
         this.name == "mapGithubConfigDebugSourceSetPaths" ||
         this.name == "extractDeepLinksGithubConfigDebug"
     ) {
         this.dependsOn("prepareLibraryDefinitionsGithubConfigDebug")
     }*/

[FricoRico]

I have the same issue

[mikepenz]

Good day.

I am not familiar with the whenTaskAdded. Do you have some additional details of why you need to do that?

Do other similar libraries generating data have similar issues with whenTaskAdded?

[mikepenz]

Can you please provide a minimal reproducible example for this?

[FricoRico]

I have found out I do not need to rely on whenTaskAdded. I copied the EspeakNG Android example which packages languages into a ZIP file when building the project and puts it in res/raw. But it turns out I do not need whenTaskAdded for this.

See ESpeakNG project:
https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/blob/master/android/build.gradle#L112

[btrautmann]

I ran into this myself and I'm really glad I found this issue or I would've had no clue this was indeed the root cause. To ensure it wasn't just a "me" thing, I started a new Android project (albeit using Flutter).

This was simply created via flutter create -e, which creates a basic empty project.

Here's the repo: https://github.com/btrautmann/about-libraries-repro. Specifically, I just added a whenTaskAdded block that prints the names of task if it contains a certain String. As soon as I added this block, the project no longer compiles. When that's removed, it builds and you can see the log statement from MainActivity that prints the number of libraries found.

[btrautmann]

Ultimately, I was only trying to add dependsOn configuration to various tasks, so I did this via applicationVariants.all { .. } and I was able to work around this, but was totally unexpected!

[mikepenz]

Thank you for the repo. I've spent some time trying to find a solution for this problem, however I've not found none yet.

If someone has suggestions on a proper way to resolve this problem, I'd be happy to have a try.

[mikepenz]

So I spent more time on it, things from the AboutLibraries side seem to be registered and built properly.

But I think the follow up part of providing the built resources to the android tasks seems to maybe be the problem.

As such my advice here would be:

• Disable the android task

aboutLibraries {
    android {
        registerAndroidTasks = true
    }
}

• Build the library definition file with the respective task
• include the resource as such in the project.
• https://github.com/mikepenz/AboutLibraries?tab=readme-ov-file#enterprise--manual-json-handling

[mikepenz]

Can you please test the new alpha version? it splits the plugin into 2 components. the main plugin with the manual tasks, and then the secondary android plugin. I wonder if now with the android registration removed by default this starts working.