How can I make a plugin available to every build?

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Hi Luke,

I wrote a custom plugin and placed that jar under $gradleHome/lib/plugins. It used to work Under Gradle1.0-milestone-3 but under Gradle1.0-milestone-4 it throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException because of the following reasons mentioned in the below link -

http://wiki.gradle.org/display/GRADLE/Gradle+1.0-milestone-5+Migration+Guide#Gradle1.0-milestone-5MigrationGuide-Buildscriptclasspath

The issue which I see with this is that every team / developer has to write these lines of code in every build files.

buildscript {
    repositories { ... add some repositories ... }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'group:module:version'
    }
}

If build script path can load custom plugin jar from $gradleHome/lib or $gradleHome/lib/plugins then the developer has to just give the following line -

apply plugin: 'pg'

I can put my custom jar under $gradleHome/lib or $gradleHome/lib/plugins and could create custom Gradle installer for my organization.

Is there any clean solution where each and every team / developer do not have to add that few lines of glue code for loading custom plugin in build scripts?

Regards, Pranav

2

The solution is to use init scripts to add any boilerplate.

http://gradle.org/current/docs/userguide/init_scripts.html

Use with caution though because it does make your build less portable because you are now relying on something external (just like putting jars in ‘$GRADLE_HOME/lib’).

3

Hi Luke,

I have added the following in init.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
     mavenRepo name: 'xxx', urls: "http://speke.yyy.co.in:8080/artifactory/pg-local"
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath group: 'com.xxx.gradle', name: 'pgplugin', version: '6.0'
        classpath group: 'com.xxx.gradle', name: 'pg', version: '1.0', ext: 'properties'
    }
}

and my build file is

apply plugin: 'pg' //plugin defined in pgplugin.jar
  version = "36.0"
  thirdPartyDependencies {
 compile id: 'log4j'
 compile id: 'springframework.core'
 testCompile id: 'junit'
}

after I run “gradle --stacktrace --init-script init.gradle clean”

I get the following error -

Caused by: org.gradle.api.InvalidUserDataException: You can't change a configuration which is not in unresolved state!
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.configurations.DefaultConfiguration.throwExceptionIfNotInUnresolvedState(DefaultConfiguration.java:408)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.configurations.DefaultConfiguration.addDependency(DefaultConfiguration.java:293)

So how do I download my custom plugin from binary repository from init script?

Regards, Pranav

4

You need to wrap what you currently have in your init script in:

projectsLoaded {
    rootProject.allprojects {
        buildscript {
          // your code here
        }
    }
}