How to dynamically set appengine gradle property

[ivorcosta]

How can I create a task that dynamically set app engine project id and run the appengineDeploy task?

On the following example when I run deployStaging appengineDeploy is being executed with project 'a', how I can rewrite this code to make it run with project 'b'?

This link shows one example of solving this problem using project property. The only detail is that I will have to edit intellij to run the task with parameters, I would like to have one task with the parameters already configured. Is there a easy/elegant solution for this? Or I should forget, carry on my life and use the above link solution?

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath("com.google.cloud.tools:appengine-gradle-plugin:2.0.1")
    }
}
apply plugin: 'com.google.cloud.tools.appengine'

def gcpProject = 'a'

appengine {
    deploy {
        projectId = gcpProject
    }
}

task deployStaging() {
    doLast {
        gcpProject = 'b'
    }
}
deployStaging.finalizedBy appengineDeploy

[Appu]

Can you explain exactly what you're trying to do? In your sample code, the problem doesn't really make sense to me (there's no reason to dynamically adjust the project).

[ivorcosta]

I'm trying to create one "helper task" that will deploy my code into a specific environment. For example:

task deployStaging // will deploy on project my-project-staging
task deployProduction // will deploy on project my-project-production

[Appu]

I think the link you suggest is actually the correct way to do it. But, you can get kind of messy with gradle (which I don't recommend) but you can decide if that's what you want. There are many drawbacks to this method, but it does solve your clicking on a task in intellij problem.

appengine {
  deploy {
     version = "123"
     // do not define projectId here
  }
}

task deployStaging {
  dependsOn appengineDeploy
}
task deployProduction {
  dependsOn appengineDeploy
}

// here's the weird gradle logic, use at your own risk
if (project.gradle.startParameter.taskNames.contains("deployStaging")) {
  appengine.deploy.projectId = "potato-stage"
}
else if(project.gradle.startParameters.tasksNames.contains("deployProduction")) {
  appengine.deploy.projectId = "tomato-prod"
}

[ivorcosta]

Tks for the reply, it is indeed a bit strange. I will check with the team which approach they prefer.