How To Create Custom ExecTool Task

MicroEJ provides the Gradle execTool task that allows to execute all Command Line Tools. However, it is possible to create a custom task of type ExecToolTask specific to a tool. This task can then be used to execute the tool before or after another task when building your project for example.

You can create a new ExecToolTask in the build file of your project as follows:

Import the ExecToolTask and LoadVeeTask classes:

import com.microej.gradle.tasks.ExecToolTask
import com.microej.gradle.tasks.LoadVeeTask

Create a new task of type ExecToolTask:

val loadVee = tasks.withType(LoadVeeTask::class).named("loadVee")
val mainSourceSet = project.extensions.getByType(SourceSetContainer::class).getByName(SourceSet.MAIN_SOURCE_SET_NAME)

tasks.register<ExecToolTask>("myCustomTask") {
    veeDir.set(loadVee.flatMap { it.loadedVeeDir })
    resourcesDirectories.from(mainSourceSet.output.resourcesDir, layout.buildDirectory.dir("generated/microej-app-wrapper/resources"))
    classesDirectories.from(mainSourceSet.output.classesDirs, layout.buildDirectory.dir("generated/microej-app-wrapper/classes"))
    classpathFromConfiguration.from(project.configurations.getByName("runtimeClasspath"))

    toolName = "microej_tool_name"
    toolProperties.putAll(mapOf(
        "property1" to "value1",
        "property2" to "value2",
        ...
    ))
}

Note

Only the toolName and toolProperties inputs are specific to the tool. The other task inputs are common to all tasks of type ExecToolTask.

The custom task can then be executed:
```
$ ./gradlew myCustomTask
```

As an example, here is how to create a task which calls the Local Deployment Socket tool:

import com.microej.gradle.tasks.ExecToolTask
import com.microej.gradle.tasks.LoadKernelExecutableTask
import com.microej.gradle.tasks.LoadVeeTask

plugins {
    id("com.microej.gradle.application") version "1.0.0"
}

group="com.mycompany"
version="1.0.0"

microej {
    applicationEntryPoint = "com.mycompany.MyFeature"
}

dependencies {
    ...
    microejVee("com.mycompany:myKernel:1.0.0")
    ...
}

...

val loadVee = tasks.withType(LoadVeeTask::class).named("loadVee")
val loadKernelExecutable = tasks.withType(LoadKernelExecutableTask::class).named("loadKernelExecutable")
val mainSourceSet = project.extensions.getByType(SourceSetContainer::class).getByName(SourceSet.MAIN_SOURCE_SET_NAME)
val buildDirectory = layout.buildDirectory

tasks.register<ExecToolTask>("localDeploy") {
    // These inputs are required for all custom tasks of type "ExecToolTask".
    veeDir.set(loadVee.flatMap { it.loadedVeeDir })
    resourcesDirectories.from(mainSourceSet.output.resourcesDir, buildDirectory.dir("generated/microej-app-wrapper/resources"))
    classesDirectories.from(mainSourceSet.output.classesDirs, buildDirectory.dir("generated/microej-app-wrapper/classes"))
    classpathFromConfiguration.from(project.configurations.getByName("runtimeClasspath"))

    // These inputs are specific to the Local Deployment Socket.
    toolName = "localDeploymentSocket"
    inputs.file(loadKernelExecutable.flatMap { it.loadedKernelExecutableFile })
    toolProperties.putAll(mapOf(
        "application.main.class" to microej.applicationEntryPoint,
        "board.server.host" to "10.0.0.171",
        "board.server.port" to "4000",
        "board.timeout" to "120000",
        "use.storage" to "true"
    ))

    doFirst {
        // Use the Executable of the Kernel provided as dependency to build the Feature file.
        toolProperties["kernel.filename"] = loadKernelExecutable.get().loadedKernelExecutableFile.get().asFile.absolutePath
    }
}

You can then execute the task to build and deploy the Feature file of the Application:

$ ./gradlew localDeploy