Avoid eager creation of the bootStartScripts task.

see https://docs.gradle.org/7.4/userguide/task_configuration_avoidance.html

Author: larsgrefer

spring-boot-project/spring-boot-tools/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/gradle/plugin/ApplicationPluginAction.java

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import org.gradle.api.file.FileCollection;
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.ApplicationPlugin;
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.ApplicationPluginConvention;
+import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskProvider;
 import org.gradle.jvm.application.scripts.TemplateBasedScriptGenerator;
 import org.gradle.jvm.application.tasks.CreateStartScripts;
 
@@ -49,26 +50,29 @@ public void execute(Project project) {
 		Distribution distribution = distributions.create("boot");
 		distribution.getDistributionBaseName()
 				.convention((project.provider(() -> applicationConvention.getApplicationName() + "-boot")));
-		CreateStartScripts bootStartScripts = project.getTasks().create("bootStartScripts", CreateStartScripts.class);
-		bootStartScripts
-				.setDescription("Generates OS-specific start scripts to run the project as a Spring Boot application.");
-		((TemplateBasedScriptGenerator) bootStartScripts.getUnixStartScriptGenerator())
-				.setTemplate(project.getResources().getText().fromString(loadResource("/unixStartScript.txt")));
-		((TemplateBasedScriptGenerator) bootStartScripts.getWindowsStartScriptGenerator())
-				.setTemplate(project.getResources().getText().fromString(loadResource("/windowsStartScript.txt")));
-		project.getConfigurations().all((configuration) -> {
-			if ("bootArchives".equals(configuration.getName())) {
-				CopySpec libCopySpec = project.copySpec().into("lib")
-						.from((Callable<FileCollection>) () -> configuration.getArtifacts().getFiles());
-				libCopySpec.setFileMode(0644);
-				distribution.getContents().with(libCopySpec);
-				bootStartScripts.setClasspath(configuration.getArtifacts().getFiles());
-			}
-		});
-		bootStartScripts.getConventionMapping().map("outputDir", () -> new File(project.getBuildDir(), "bootScripts"));
-		bootStartScripts.getConventionMapping().map("applicationName", applicationConvention::getApplicationName);
-		bootStartScripts.getConventionMapping().map("defaultJvmOpts",
-				applicationConvention::getApplicationDefaultJvmArgs);
+		TaskProvider<CreateStartScripts> bootStartScripts = project.getTasks().register("bootStartScripts",
+				CreateStartScripts.class, (bss) -> {
+					bss.setDescription(
+							"Generates OS-specific start scripts to run the project as a Spring Boot application.");
+					((TemplateBasedScriptGenerator) bss.getUnixStartScriptGenerator()).setTemplate(
+							project.getResources().getText().fromString(loadResource("/unixStartScript.txt")));
+					((TemplateBasedScriptGenerator) bss.getWindowsStartScriptGenerator()).setTemplate(
+							project.getResources().getText().fromString(loadResource("/windowsStartScript.txt")));
+
+					project.getConfigurations().all((configuration) -> {
+						if ("bootArchives".equals(configuration.getName())) {
+							CopySpec libCopySpec = project.copySpec().into("lib")
+									.from((Callable<FileCollection>) () -> configuration.getArtifacts().getFiles());
+							libCopySpec.setFileMode(0644);
+							distribution.getContents().with(libCopySpec);
+							bss.setClasspath(configuration.getArtifacts().getFiles());
+						}
+					});
+					bss.getConventionMapping().map("outputDir", () -> new File(project.getBuildDir(), "bootScripts"));
+					bss.getConventionMapping().map("applicationName", applicationConvention::getApplicationName);
+					bss.getConventionMapping().map("defaultJvmOpts",
+							applicationConvention::getApplicationDefaultJvmArgs);
+				});
 		CopySpec binCopySpec = project.copySpec().into("bin").from(bootStartScripts);
 		binCopySpec.setFileMode(0755);
 		distribution.getContents().with(binCopySpec);