Reference project directory from Kotlin convention plugin

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I’ve created some convention plugins to share with others in my team according to this guide Sharing build logic in a multi-repo setup Sample.

I want to reference the project directory of the project that is using my convention plugin from within the plugin itself. However when I use something like project.layout.buildDirectory it is referencing the build directory for the plugin and not the project using the plugin.

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I am using the conventions from the plugin in /buildSrc conventions within a project. I just testing using the conventions from the plugin directly in a subproject gradle build file and it compiled just fine. Is using a convention from a plugin within a /buildSrc convention simply not the correct way to use conventions. I did it this way because there are some commonalities between our various projects but also some differences. Should I move all the conventions, even the more project specific ones, into the plugin.

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Can you show an MCVE?
From what you said, it should work as you expect.

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I’ll try to get an MVCE up soon but I’m away for a bit. I’ve given more details in my original question.

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Is using a convention from a plugin within a /buildSrc convention simply not the correct way to use conventions.

If I got you right, that is exactly the right way. (besides that I prefer using an included build over buildSrc but that should not make a difference here).

Should I move all the conventions, even the more project specific ones, into the plugin.

You can, but you don’t have to. Should not really be relevant to the issue here.

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Thanks for your help Björn. Turns out it was more my unfamiliarity with the Kotlin DSL.

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