Gradle.properties are not available when applying external script in buildscript

[Levon_Saldamli]

I tried this solution with an external script but I too get the error that my property is not defined:

buildscript.gradle:

dependencies {
    classpath "com.company.plugins:some-plugin:${pluginVersion}"
}

build.gradle:

buildscript { 
    apply from: "buildscript.gradle", to: buildscript
}

gradle.properties:

pluginVersion=5.6M6-SNAPSHOT

When running:

> gradle tasks

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/Users/levsa/tmp/foo/buildscript.gradle' line: 2

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating script.
> Could not find property 'pluginVersion' on org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler_Decorated@24d3e83f.

Continuing the discussion from Inherit / inject buildscript dependencies into custom script within subproject:

@Peter_Niederwieser

Script plugins aren’t currently affected by the buildscript section of the build scripts they get applied to. (Actually, it’s questionable whether subproject build scripts should be affected by the buildscript sections of parent build scripts, even though that’s the way it currently is.) What you can do is to move the reusable parts of the buildscript section into its own script plugin:

gradle/buildscript.gradle:

repositories {
    maven {
        // from gradle.properties
        url nexusDependencies
    }
}
dependencies {
    classpath "com.inxmail:gradle-nsis-plugin:0.0.1-SNAPSHOT"
}

You can then include this code in any buildscript section that requires it: client/gradle/distribution.gradle:

buildscript {
  apply from: "$rootProject.projectDir/gradle/buildscript.gradle", to: buildscript
}

This might get revised at some point, but it’s too early to tell.

[isobretatel (Val)]

The example above (from Peter) does not work.