Publishing a plugin to internal maven repo

[tjungblut (Thomas Jungblut)]

Hey guys,

I’m currently working on a plugin that is designed for internal consumption within my company. We have a nexus repository, but I can’t use the PublishingPlugin to push to it even though I configured it via the RepositoryHandler.

Two questions arise from there:

1. Can I push a gradle plugin bundle to Nexus and retrieve it from there?
2. Can I self-host my own gradle plugin repository?

Cheers,
Thomas

[tomdcc (Tom Dunstan)]

Hi Thomas

You have a couple of options:

• You can publish plugins to your internal repository and then apply them inside the buildscript block
• If you want to use the plugins { } DSL, you can define a pluginRepositories { } block to tell Gradle where to get them from. Note that you’ll need to publish plugin marker artifacts along with your plugin jars to do make resolving those plugins using the plugins { } DSL work.

Hope that helps

Tom