What is configuration avoidance option to find exising task in Gradle's Kotlin DSL?

Question

Using configuration avoidance API: the way to create a new task and configure it:

val someLongTaskName by tasks.registering {
  // configure action here
}

while the way to configure an existing task:

val anotherVeryLongTaskName = tasks.named("anotherVeryLongTaskName") {
  // configure action here
}

In the latter case I'd rather like not to repeat myself and use something similar to:

val anotherLongTaskName = by tasks.naming {
  // configure action here
}

Is it possible?

Answer 1

Usually you do not need the val anotherLongTaskName.

So You will not repeat your self in cases where you will write:

tasks.named("anotherVeryLongTaskName") {
  // configure action here
}