Depencies between subprojects with idea plugin

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Hi there,

I am using Gradle 2.7. I have a multi-project setup with dependencies between subprojects, like this:

project(':projectA') {
  dependencies {
    compile project(':projectB')
}

When I use the idea plugin I assumed that those dependencies would also be written to the *.iml files, but they are not. I then added to the build file something similar to:

  idea {
    module {
      iml {
        whenMerged { module ->
          module.dependencies += new org.gradle.plugins.ide.idea.model.ModuleDependency('projectB','compile')
        }
      }
    }
  }

But this feels like a hack. Why aren’t these dependencies generated when one project depends on another?

Thanks!

2

Did you add the projects to settings.gradle. Project dependencies are automatically established when generating project files with the idea plugin.

3

Yes, all subprojects are included by the top-level settings.gradle file.