How do you depend on all projects beneath a subdir without naming each project?

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1

We have a multi-project build with a bunch of libraries stored in a subdirectory:

root/
    libraries/
        lib-1/
        lib-2/
        lib-3/
        lib-4/
    war/

Is it possible declare all of the lib projects as compile dependencies in the war project gradle file without naming each one individually?

2

You could simply iterate over the collection of subprojects.

dependencies {

subprojects.each {

compile project(it.path)

}

}

3

How would I turn the directory of libraries into a collection of subprojects?

4

Also, would I have to change the settings.gradle in the root directory?

If so, would I just add the text “libraries”, or would it be something different?

5

Yes, you have to change settings.gradle in order to include those subproject in your multi-project build. If you wanted to do it in a way that didn’t involve explicitly listing each library you could do something like this:

new File(rootDir, ‘libraries’).eachDir {

include “:libraries:$it.name”

}