How does ivypublication syntax works?

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1

For example:

publishing {
  publications {
    myPublication(IvyPublication) {
      from components.java
      artifact(sourceJar) {
        type "source"
        extension "src.jar"
        conf "runtime"
      }
      descriptor.withXml {
        asNode().info[0].appendNode("description", "custom-description")
      }
    }
  }
}

Here the publication is declared as: myPublication(IvyPublication), which is of format: var_name(type) {}, what kind of syntax is this?

Thanks.

2

Not sure if I understand the question, but ‘myPublication’ is the name of the publication, and ‘IvyPublication’ the type.

3

Yea, I know what it means, but I just don’t understand the syntax, could we actually define a variable in groovy/gradle this way:

variable_name(type)
  num(int)
4

Technically, ‘myPublication(IvyPublication) { …}’ is a dynamic method call with two arguments that Gradle traps and interprets as the name, type, and configuration block of a publication, respectively.

5

Thanks Peter, but I am afraid I am still not following: myPublication is the name parameter, IvyPublication is the type parameters, {…} is the configuration part, then where is the function?

I found on this page: http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.publish.PublicationContainer.html, there is actually such a function:

publishing.publications.create('publication-name', IvyPublication) {
    // Configure the ivy publication here
}

is that calling the create function underlying, but how does this syntax maps to a function call?

6

‘myPublication’ is the (dynamic) method name that gets trapped because no physical method with that name exists The trap then calls ‘create’.