Can we add dependencies into a gradle plugin like maven does?

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I’m a freshman to Gradle and trying to convert one of my maven poms.

In my pom.xml, there is a plugin definition, like below:

        <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>${maven-checkstyle-plugin.version}</version>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                        <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
                        <version>${checkstyle.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>cn.yusiwen</groupId>
                        <artifactId>maven-build-helper</artifactId>
                        <version>${maven-build-helper.version}</version>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>checkstyle-validation</id>
                        <phase>compile</phase>
                        <configuration>
                            <violationSeverity>warn</violationSeverity>
                            <!--suppress UnresolvedMavenProperty -->
                            <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
                            <includeTestSourceDirectory>false</includeTestSourceDirectory>
                            <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                            <consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
                            <failOnViolation>true</failOnViolation>
                            <failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
                            <excludes>**/enums/*Enum.java,**/Launcher.java,**/*Application.java</excludes>
                        </configuration>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>check</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
         </plugin>

You can see, the plugin maven-checkstyle-plugin depends on other maven artifacts. I’ve packed my configuration file checkstype.xml in my artifact cn.yusiwen:maven-build-helper and inject it into the plugin classpath, so the plugin can load the configuration file at runtime.

Can I apply checkstyle plugin in Gradle and inject my artifact cn.yusiwen:maven-build-helper into it like maven does?

Thanks a lot!

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This should do what you intend using Kotlin DSL:

val checkstyleConfig by configurations.creating

dependencies {
    checkstyleConfig("cn.yusiwen:maven-build-helper:1.2.3")
}

tasks.checkstyleMain {
    config = resources.text.fromArchiveEntry(checkstyleConfig, "checkstyle.xml")
}