Pass extra arguments to prerequisite tasks

[charleskorn]

Is it also possible to pass those extra arguments for tasks (here: "build") as part of task prerequisites? I tried

task:
  prerequisites:
    - run-gradle build

and

task:
  prerequisites:
    - run-gradle -- build

but neither works.

Originally posted by @sschuberth in #1012 (comment)

[charleskorn]

@sschuberth could you talk a little more about your use case? I'm interested to understand what you're trying to achieve in case there's another way to provide the same end result in another way.

[sschuberth]

Sure thing. I've defined a task like

tasks:
  gradle:
    description: >-
      A generic task that "forwards" task arguments to Gradle. Use it like
      `./batect gradle -- installDist`.
    run:
      container: build
      command: ./gradlew --stacktrace

and now my idea was to define another task like

  requirements:
    description: >-
      A task to check ORT's requirements against the runtime container.
    prerequisites:
      - gradle installDist
    run:
      container: run
      command: ./cli/build/install/ort/bin/ort requirements

That, however, does not work. What I'm currently doing as a work-around is to define yet one more intermediate task like

  buildCli:
    description: >-
      A convenience task to build (but not run) ORT's command line interface.
    run:
      container: build
      command: ./gradlew --stacktrace installDist

and then replace the prerequisite "gradle installDist" with "buildCli".

[charleskorn]

Makes sense, thanks for explaining @sschuberth.

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