1571288 - Lots of Gradle warnings about obsolete Gradle APIs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(GeckoView :: General, defect)

Description

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

... making the build output rather noisy:

> Configure project :app
WARNING: API 'variant.getPreBuild()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getPreBuildProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getPreBuild(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.
WARNING: API 'variant.getJavaCompile()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getJavaCompileProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getJavaCompile(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.

> Configure project :geckoview
WARNING: API 'variant.getGenerateBuildConfig()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getGenerateBuildConfigProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getGenerateBuildConfig(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.
WARNING: API 'variant.getAidlCompile()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getAidlCompileProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getAidlCompile(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.
WARNING: API 'variant.getPackageLibrary()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getPackageLibraryProvider()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getPackageLibrary(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display more information.

Comment 1

[Agi Sferro | :agi | Employee until July 1st | he/him]

Some of these come from apilint: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/gradle-apilint/issues/73

Comment 2

[Agi Sferro | :agi | Employee until July 1st | he/him]

I needed something easy so I fixed this. Patch coming soon.

Comment 3

[Agi Sferro | :agi | Employee until July 1st | he/him]

Attachment: Bug 1571288 - Fix gradle warnings about obsolete APIs.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/38ac0df00f7b
Fix gradle warnings about obsolete APIs. r=nalexander

Comment 5

[Alexandru Michis [:malexandru]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/38ac0df00f7b

Comment 6

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

69=wontfix because we don't need to uplift these Gradle warning fixes to Beta.