[Enhancement] Allow override of repository url (mavenCentral/jcenter) url

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Hi,

I would like to be able to override value for DefaultRepositoryHandler.BINTRAY_JCENTER_URL and ArtifactRepositoryContainer.MAVEN_CENTRAL_URL in my ~/.gradle/gradle.properties (or any other configuration file at user level)

Use case : force usage of a an artifactory (or nexus) server at least for default repository without modifying the build itself.

Or better : allow a repository url override configuration file. To be able to remap any declared repository externally to the buildfile itself : eg of possible file content :
https://jcenter.bintray.com https://ourartifactory:6666
https://foom2repository/here https://ourartifactory:6666
http://notsogoodrepository https://oursonatypenexus

Thanks.

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This sounds very similar to configuring mirrors with Maven. You could use this plugin to get some of this functionality (although requiring a settings.xml file). Take a look at the implementation for an example of how you could do something like this yourself, perhaps in an init script.

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Hi Mark,

Yes it’s almost like maven’s mirrors. I like your plugin and it’s almost what I need.

But here, I would like to see a such feature integrated into gradle so no modification of any buildfile is needed.
Juste checkout any project, run gradlew, and have the repositories url override behavior applied.

Thanks.

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There are no plans to add such a capability to Gradle core at this time. I think your best bet would be to add such logic in an init script which would allow you to avoid modifying your project’s build scripts.

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Is there no plan because you don’t want to allow users to do such things, or there is no plan only because it’s not a priority ? (In other word, If I try to make a PR to add such feature to gradle and if the quality of the contribution is ok according to gradle’s standard, there is chance that my PR will be accepted ?)

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My opinion is because there is already a solution for this use case (init script) I’m not sure we want to expose some magic properties specifically for this purpose. I would suggest you bring this up on the gradle-dev mailing list before submitting a PR.