jOOQ-codegen-gradle should resolve relative directories with respect to the gradle project, not the running process

[lukaseder]

There's an issue with the resolution of relative paths in the new jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin (#12985), as reported here:

• https://stackoverflow.com/q/77676948/521799
• https://github.com/mattupstate/jooq-gradle-example/

When not providing jOOQ with absolute target paths, then the relative directory is resolved with respect to the running process, e.g.:

  target dir             : C:\Users\lukas\.gradle\daemon\8.5\target\generated-sources\jooq

Instead of the gradle project. We do this already for the maven plugin, so let's do it as well for the gradle plugin. The default should be build/generated-sources/jooq instead of target/generated-sources/jooq

[lukaseder]

Fixed in versions:

• 3.20.0
• 3.19.1 (jOOQ-codegen-gradle should resolve relative directories with respect to the gradle project, not the running process - Merge [#15944] #15945)

[mattupstate]

Would it be possible to use Gradle's filesystem types, such as org.gradle.api.file.Directory, instead of String for file oriented values?

[lukaseder]

Can you please be more specific. Where specifically should jOOQ use those types?

Also, it would be helpful if you could state why you need this.

[mattupstate]

Forgive me. You can ignore this comment.