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First, thanks for this plugin, it's really useful. :)

For various reasons, I need to compile Thrift sources to multiple languages independently, e.g. sometimes I must only compile to Java and sometimes only to Objective-C. So I want to create multiple tasks of type ThriftTask, and not use the default generateThriftSource.

I tried creating a task of type ThriftTask, but it's always skipped because of a lack of source files. I think it's because ThriftTask defines a setSource(SourceDirectorySet) and only uses that as its source, not the source protected field defined by its parent SourceTask (and set by setSource(Object), which means e.g. source 123 runs fine but is actually useless within a ThriftTask). SourceDirectorySet is only implemented by DefaultSourceDirectorySet, an internal Gradle class that's not easy to use from a build script since it requires a FileResolver, another internal Gradle interface that must be injected by Gradle.

TL;DR: Could you please allow build scripts to change the source directory? This is (I think) the only required feature to be able to create tasks of type ThriftTask that work properly. Thanks!

Would it be possible to add support for explicitly specifying the location of the thrift executable? Seems like the code is almost there for that...