Running license{$variant}Report while process{$variant}Manifest results in EMPTY json/html

[jomapp]

While using your gradle license plugin in a bigger project I noticed that it's not possible to run the license{$variant}Report in a task that also depends on process{$variant}Manifest, from the Android Gradle Plugin, somehow. Please see the following code. I also created a simple project here.

Running generateLicenses works fine, but running createEmptyLicenseReportIssue instead, resolves in an empty json/html file.

Thank you for looking into this issue!

licenseReport {
    generateHtmlReport = false
    generateJsonReport = true
    copyHtmlReportToAssets = false
    copyJsonReportToAssets = false
}

task generateLicenses { // Does Work ✅
    dependsOn 'licenseDebugReport'
}

task createEmptyLicenseReportIssue { // Does not work ⛔️
    dependsOn 'processDebugManifest'
    dependsOn 'generateLicenses'
}

generateLicenses.mustRunAfter('processDebugManifest')

[jaredsburrows]

@jomapp What is the use case for this? Have you found a work around?