canIDeploy Gradle task not working on Gradle 7.1

[georgeharley]

This looks related to #1429 and #1374.

Using a Gradle wrapper at 7.1 and version 4.1.26 of the "au.com.dius.pact" Gradle plugin, the canIDeploy task fails as shown below.

$ ./gradlew canIDeploy -Ppacticipant=pactProvider -PpacticipantVersion=0.0.6
> Task :canIDeploy FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
A problem was found with the configuration of task ':canIDeploy' (type 'PactCanIDeployTask').
  - In plugin 'au.com.dius.pact' type 'au.com.dius.pact.provider.gradle.PactCanIDeployTask' property 'brokerClient' is missing an input or output annotation.
    
    Reason: A property without annotation isn't considered during up-to-date checking.
    
    Possible solutions:
      1. Add an input or output annotation.
      2. Mark it as @Internal.
    
    Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/7.1/userguide/validation_problems.html#missing_annotation for more details about this problem.

* Try:
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BUILD FAILED in 1s
1 actionable task: 1 executed

When the Gradle wrapper is switched from 7.1 to 6.8 then the canIDeploy task works fine again.

[georgeharley]

Seeing the task fail as described in the issue description even when using version 4.2.11 of the Pact JVM dependencies with Gradle 7.1.

[zanella]

Bumped to 4.1.38 and it's fixed, this issue can be closed.