Gradle - how to run ant task with "-" in name

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I want to use cobertura in my gradle build so I created task in this way:

ant.typedef(resource: 'tasks.properties', classpath:configurations.cobertura.asPath)

And now I want to run cobertura-instrument. The problem is that I don't know how to run this task because ant.cobertura-instrument(...) won't work. Is there some other way to run it? For example something like this ant.tasks['cobertura-instrument'](...)

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 28 '13 at 10:43

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You can also use the task like this ant."cobertura-instrument"(...).

answered Jun 28 '13 at 10:43

Benjamin Muschko

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 27 '13 at 08:51

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Problem solved

Ant task name can be changed using name argument. For cobertura-instrument it looks like this:

ant.typedef(classname:'net.sourceforge.cobertura.ant.InstrumentTask', name:'coberturaInstrument', classpath:configurations.cobertura.asPath)

so task can be usd in this way:

ant.coberturaInstrument(...)

answered Jun 27 '13 at 08:51

pepuch

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You can also use the task like this `ant."cobertura-instrument"(...)`. – Benjamin Muschko Jun 27 '13 at 21:04
Thanks @Benjamin! I think that your answer is better because it doesn't require to rename task. Add this as an answer if you can. – pepuch Jun 28 '13 at 05:05
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BTW: I saw you were trying to use the Cobertura Ant tasks. Did you try out the [Cobertura Gradle plugin](https://github.com/eriwen/gradle-cobertura-plugin)? – Benjamin Muschko Jun 28 '13 at 11:42
No i didn't. I'll try it. Thanks again! – pepuch Jun 28 '13 at 11:43

Gradle - how to run ant task with "-" in name

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