How execute a task inside doLast in Gradle?

Question

I am trying to create a zip using gradle task but while running inside doLast{} , it's throwing error saying : > Cannot call Task.dependsOn(Object...) on task ':app:testZip' after task has started execution.

MyCode :

doLast {

    testDir.eachWithIndex { a, i ->

        def dir = "${testDir[i]}"
        def dirName = "${testDirName[i]}"

       dependsOn tasks.create("testZip$c", Zip) {
            from dir
            baseName dirName
            destinationDir(file("$dir"))
        }

        c++
    } }

I don't find solution to this issue, please let me know, how can i run Zip task inside doLast{}

Answer 1

The error is being thrown because you are trying to create a new Task after the configuration phase has completed. Some possible solutions are to; remove the doLast() call, define a zip task outside of your doLast() or move zip logic into a method.