Support launch a maven goal/gradle task via launch configuration

[jdneo]

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Currently there is no way to launch a Maven goal or Gradle task via the VS Code launch configuration, which is supported in other Java IDE.

[Nightenom]

Hello, is there any progress? Seems like it's in backlog to me I'm asking because of need to run virtual/internally created gradle task before executing the launch/attach command

[testforstephen]

@Nightenom You can customize your Gradle task in tasks.json and then call it as a preLaunchTask in launch.json. See the link https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-java-debug/issues/120#issuecomment-417269773 for an example.

[Nightenom]

Thanks for link, but I'm aware of this, currently the task is added only if ide is detected and as such not easily available from command line. To use tasks.json I need to change the task/plugin impl, which is doable, but not desired. Not to mention the task has its dependsOn, which will need to be run every time I start debugging (vs once during setup from ide) (Note: it's custom gradle plugin, I'm currently using eclipse.autoBuildTasks but it's overkill and slows down everything)