Gradle 8 support

[mjones-vsat]

When running evaluateViolations on a Gradle 8 project with Checkstyle enabled, the following occurs:

Caused by: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Cannot get the value of write-only property 'destination' for Report xml of type org.gradle.api.reporting.internal.TaskGeneratedSingleFileR
eport.
        at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject.getWriteOnlyProperty(AbstractDynamicObject.java:101)
        at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.BeanDynamicObject$MetaClassAdapter.getProperty(BeanDynamicObject.java:229)
        at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.BeanDynamicObject.tryGetProperty(BeanDynamicObject.java:176)
        at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.CompositeDynamicObject.tryGetProperty(CompositeDynamicObject.java:55)
        at org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject.getProperty(AbstractDynamicObject.java:60)
        at org.gradle.api.reporting.internal.TaskGeneratedSingleFileReport_Decorated.getProperty(Unknown Source)
        at com.gradleup.staticanalysis.internal.checkstyle.CheckstyleConfigurator$_createCollectViolations_closure3.doCall(CheckstyleConfigurator.groovy:68)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at org.gradle.util.internal.ClosureBackedAction.execute(ClosureBackedAction.java:73)
        at org.gradle.util.internal.ConfigureUtil.configureTarget(ConfigureUtil.java:155)
        at org.gradle.util.internal.ConfigureUtil.configureSelf(ConfigureUtil.java:131)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask.configure(AbstractTask.java:695)
        at org.gradle.api.DefaultTask.configure(DefaultTask.java:319)
        at org.gradle.api.DefaultTask.configure(DefaultTask.java:45)
        at org.gradle.util.internal.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:104)
        at org.gradle.util.internal.ConfigureUtil$WrappedConfigureAction.execute(ConfigureUtil.java:167)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultMutationGuard$1.execute(DefaultMutationGuard.java:45)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultMutationGuard$1.execute(DefaultMutationGuard.java:45)
        at org.gradle.configuration.internal.DefaultUserCodeApplicationContext$CurrentApplication$1.execute(DefaultUserCodeApplicationContext.java:123)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultCollectionCallbackActionDecorator$BuildOperationEmittingAction$1.run(DefaultCollectionCallbackActionDecorator.java:110)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationRunner$1.execute(DefaultBuildOperationRunner.java:29)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationRunner$1.execute(DefaultBuildOperationRunner.java:26)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationRunner$2.execute(DefaultBuildOperationRunner.java:66)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationRunner$2.execute(DefaultBuildOperationRunner.java:59)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationRunner.execute(DefaultBuildOperationRunner.java:157)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationRunner.execute(DefaultBuildOperationRunner.java:59)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationRunner.run(DefaultBuildOperationRunner.java:47)
        at org.gradle.internal.operations.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:68)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultCollectionCallbackActionDecorator$BuildOperationEmittingAction.execute(DefaultCollectionCallbackActionDecorator.java:107)
        at org.gradle.internal.ImmutableActionSet$SetWithManyActions.execute(ImmutableActionSet.java:329)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultDomainObjectCollection.doAdd(DefaultDomainObjectCollection.java:262)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultNamedDomainObjectCollection.doAdd(DefaultNamedDomainObjectCollection.java:113)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultDomainObjectCollection.add(DefaultDomainObjectCollection.java:256)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultNamedDomainObjectCollection$AbstractDomainObjectCreatingProvider.tryCreate(DefaultNamedDomainObjectCollection.java:944)
        ... 166 more

[gounthar]

Thanks for opening this issue.
I have the same problem.
I haven't found any information about this in the pmd documentation.

[sixtsense]

Same here

[mjones-vsat]

We have found a workaround. Please enjoy.

// Compatibility with Gradle Static Analysis plugin.
org.gradle.api.reporting.internal.TaskGeneratedSingleFileReport.metaClass.tap {
    it.getDestination = {
        return delegate.outputLocation.get().getAsFile()
    }
    it.setDestination = { File value ->
        delegate.destination = value
    }
}

[Gelassen]

@vsmteam , thank you for sharing, but when did you intent to put it and do you need anything besides supplied gradle? I use gradle-8.2 and compiler tells me metaClass doesn't exist.

My issue is:

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':app:collectcheckstyleDebugAndroidTestVariantViolations'.
> Could not create task ':app:collectCheckstyleAndroidTestDebugViolations'.
   > Cannot get the value of write-only property 'destination' for Report xml of type org.gradle.api.reporting.internal.TaskGeneratedSingleFileReport.

on running ./gradlew check