Accessing gradle properties in java jar

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Hi Team,

I am exposing my jar file to other teams. Is it possible during build my jar can read the gradle properties defined in users gradle.build. Like I want use project name and cmdb id to read from gardle file so internally my jar can push that information to elastic search?

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Do you mean you want to include that information in the MANIFEST.MF? The jar task has a manifest configuration closure:

jar {
  manifest {
    attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'ProVerbial',
    'Implementation-Version': "Integrierte Version ${project.version}",
    'Implementation-Vendor': project.proVerbialImplementationVendor,
    'Built-from': project.built_from_revision
  }
}

The project.x properties come from gradle.properties, the command line etc.

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Hi Sjbufton,

thanks for you reply. No my requirement is, I am devloping a jar which other users will be using in there gradle.build. say complile ‘xxxx.myjar’. Inside my jar code is they any way I can pass the cmdb id and project name of gradle project which third party user is buidling using my jar.

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Is your jar a build plugin, or simply a dependency included in some other project? If it is a plugin, of course it can read the build properties. If it’s simply a dependency, there is no code which will be activated as part of the build, so no.