HTTPBuilder or other libs in plugins

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Hi,

I’m creating a plugin and have been doing HTTP calls for some time with the plain old Java HTTPUrlConnection. I can see that gradle distribution ships in its lib folder with HTTPBuilder but I haven’t been able to use it successfully in the past. Plugin compiles but ‘no class def found exception’ in runtime. Is there a way to make the libraries available in gradle’s distribution lib folder to the plugins?

Thanks

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Those classes are explicitly shielded from plugins because they can change at any time without notice. So the short answer is “no” in this case.

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Hi Luke, whilst you note the ones in the distro are off limits. Does that also mean we can’t pull them into a plugin through the normal means?

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You can pull them in as usual. There’s no limitation to what you add to your compile/runtime classpath for a plugin.

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Thanks @bmuschko . How has Gradle managed to isolate these libs, but conflicts with logging still occur? See, Classpath hell - SoapUI and Gradle API logging conflicts

Is this a pattern you could apply to logging?