Is there a way to know the currently executing task?

[paulomorgado]

I'm using CakeFrosting, but I suppose it would be same for .cake files and Cake SDK.

Sometimes I find the need to log the executing task/target to other platforms (like MSBuild).

Is there a way to get that information from the Cake context?

[devlead]

That would be Task Setup/Teardown

https://cakebuild.net/docs/writing-builds/setup-and-teardown

[paulomorgado]

So, I would have to provide a FrostingTaskSetup<TContext> and a custom ICakeContext to collect the task name.

public static class Program
{
    public static int Main(string[] args)
    {
        return new CakeHost()
            .UseContext<MyBuildContext>()
            .UseTaskSetup<MyFrostingTaskSetup>()
            .Run(args);
    }
}

public class MyFrostingTaskSetup : FrostingTaskSetup<MyBuildContext>
{
    public override void Setup(MyBuildContext context, ITaskSetupContext info)
    {
       context.TaskName = info.Task.Name;
    }
}

Is that it?

[devlead]

It should work, doesn't it?

[paulomorgado]

Haven't tried it yet.