NPE trying to publish modules that don’t need to be published

[asarkar]

Consider a multimodule project where only some of the submodules need to be published. Even the plugin is configured in the root project build file only for the required sub projects, when task bintrayPublish is executed on the root, it fails with NPE.

> Task :bintrayUpload

Repository name, package name or version name are null for project: root project 'xxx'

> Task :bintrayPublish FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':bintrayPublish'.
> java.lang.NullPointerException (no error message)

https://github.com/asarkar/okgrpc/runs/1442767869?check_suite_focus=true

To fix this, task bintrayUpload has to be disabled on the projects that don’t need to be published or each module that needs published is to be published separately. Either way, it’s unnecessary busy work.

Why can’t the plugin just emit a warning and do nothing if the artifact is null?