How does new configuration name resolved to the create method in configurations DSL?

[SatyaKomatineni]

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How does implicit creation of objects in containers work?

I’ve been going through the gradle source code and the groovy language to understand this. But so far the answer has eluded me. How does the implicit creation of objects in containers work in gradle? More specifically, implementations of NamedObjectContainer seem to have this magical ability to create objects if they don’t exist. I’m going to provide specific examples. The example here includes this. apply plugin: 'java' //so that I can use 'compile', 'testCompile' configurations configurati…