InAndOutDirectoryOperationRequest

interface InAndOutDirectoryOperationRequest<TaskT : Task>
com.android.build.api.artifact.InAndOutDirectoryOperationRequest

Summary

Public methods
abstract Unit
toTransform(type: ArtifactTypeT)

Initiates a transform request to a single Artifact.Transformable artifact type.
abstract ArtifactTransformationRequest<TaskT>
toTransformMany(type: ArtifactTypeT)

Initiates a transform request to a single Artifact.Transformable artifact type that can contain more than one artifact.

Public methods

toTransform

abstract fun <ArtifactTypeT> toTransform(type: ArtifactTypeT): Unit where ArtifactTypeT : Artifact.Single<Directory>, ArtifactTypeT : Artifact.Transformable

Initiates a transform request to a single Artifact.Transformable artifact type.

Parameters
type: ArtifactTypeT

The Artifact identifying the artifact to transform. The Artifact's Artifact.kind must be Artifact.DIRECTORY

The artifact type must be Artifact.Single and Artifact.Transformable.

Let's take a Task transforming an input org.gradle.api.file.Directory into an output:

    abstract class MyTask: DefaultTask() {
         @get:InputFiles abstract val inputDir: DirectoryProperty
         @get:OutputDirectory abstract val outputDir: DirectoryProperty

         @TaskAction fun taskAction() {
             ... read inputFile and write outputFile ...
         }
    }

An ArtifactType defined as follows :

    sealed class ArtifactType<T: FileSystemLocation>(val kind: ArtifactKind) {
         object SINGLE_DIR_ARTIFACT:
                 ArtifactType<Directory>(DIRECTORY), Single, Transformable
    }

You can register a transform to the collection of org.gradle.api.file.RegularFile.

    val taskProvider= projects.tasks.register(MyTask::class.java, "transformTask")
    artifacts.use(taskProvider)
     .wiredWithDirectories(
         MyTask::inputFile,
         MyTask::outputFile)
     .toTransform(ArtifactType.SINGLE_DIR_ARTIFACT)

toTransformMany

abstract fun <ArtifactTypeT> toTransformMany(type: ArtifactTypeT): ArtifactTransformationRequest<TaskT> where ArtifactTypeT : Artifact.Single<Directory>, ArtifactTypeT : Artifact.ContainsMany

Initiates a transform request to a single Artifact.Transformable artifact type that can contain more than one artifact.

Parameters
type: ArtifactTypeT The Artifact of the Directory identifying the artifact to transform.
Return

ArtifactTransformationRequest that will allow processing of individual artifacts located in the input directory.

The artifact type must be Artifact.Single, Artifact.Transformable, and Artifact.ContainsMany.

For example, let's take a Task to transform a list of org.gradle.api.file.RegularFile as inputs into a single output:

    abstract class MyTask: DefaultTask() {
         @get:InputFiles abstract val inputFolder: DirectoryProperty
         @get:OutputFile abstract val outputFolder: DirectoryProperty
         @Internal abstract Property<ArtifactTransformationRequest<MyTask>> getTransformationRequest()

         @TaskAction fun taskAction() {
            transformationRequest.get().submit(
                 ... submit a work item for each input file ...
            )
         }
    }

You then register the task as follows:

    val taskProvider= projects.tasks.register(MyTask::class.java, "combineTask")
    val transformationRequest = artifacts.use(taskProvider)
      .wiredWith(
         MyTask::inputFolder,
         MyTask::outputFolder)
      .toTransformMany(ArtifactType.APK)
    taskProvider.configure { task ->
         task.getTransformationRequest().set(transformationRequest)
    }