How to disable a Gradle task? (Spotless, OpenTelemetry)

Question

Problem : Project linting task (Spotless-check) is too nitpicky and will not allow project to build

Goal : Trying disable the the spotless task when invoking ./gradelw assemble

(https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/blob/main/gradlew)

Things I've tried

• Manually editing the internal Gradle files
• Adding the -x flag to Gradle : ie. ./gradlew assemble -x spotlessCheck

Result of attempts : The code linting task runs regardless of everything I've tried to disable it.

Answer 1

I've had this spotless issue with many Java projects, so I think it's not specific to otel. I think this feature needs to be added to spotless itself, so I'd open an issue there.

I usually just do ./gradlew spotlessApply before running tests as a workaround.