Unable to set up a lazy task for zipping test results

[liutikas]

Current Behavior

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Could not determine the dependencies of task ':lib:zipTestResults'.
> Property 'outputLocation' is declared as an output property of Report junitXml (type DefaultJUnitXmlReport) but does not have a task associated with it.

Expected Behavior

Success

Context (optional)

val testTask = tasks.named<Test>("test") {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

val zipTask = project.tasks.register<Zip>("zipTestResults") {
    destinationDirectory.set(layout.buildDirectory.dir("host-test-reports"))
    archiveFileName.set("test-results.zip")
    from(testTask.flatMap { it.reports.junitXml.outputLocation })
}

i would expect this to work. The only current way to make it work is to force Test task to be configured.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Check out https://github.com/liutikas/gradle-zip-test-results-repro
2. ./gradlew zipTestResults

Gradle version

8.7

Build scan URL (optional)

https://scans.gradle.com/s/gu43ldzon43rc

Your Environment (optional)

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