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Hello, I am building a project of several artifacts with Maven and recently developed a Gradle plugin. Unfortunately, this was a bit tricky to do. I integrated the Gradle plugin by running Gradle from Maven which is however limited as new artifacts are not yet available in any repository. Therefore, I reattach the results of the triggered Gradle build to Maven and take it from there such that the artifacts end up in both JCenter and Maven Central.

Ideally, I would like to use a script to also deploy the artifacts to the Plugin repository. Is there a standard API to use for uploading a ready-made artifact without needing to use the designated Gradle plugin? I do not want to further complicate my build.

Ideally, I would like to build the Gradle plugin with Maven altogether. This would require:

a) Adding the Gradle plugin API to Maven Central.
b) Supplying a build plugin to also deploy the artifact to the Plugin repository.

I understand that this might not be a priority for you but the majority of my users is using Maven, I need to give this precedence.

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Hi Rafael,

there is no need to publish your Gradle plugin to Maven Central or JCenter, so I don’t fully understand the initial problem.

Plugins should only be published to the plugin portal.

Cheers,
Stefan

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The problem is that I cannot publish a Gradle plugin via Maven so publishing it to JCenter and Maven Central is the next best thing I got working. I would however ignore the artifact from publication in the Maven build if I was able to publish an artifact directly to the Plugin Portal. I understand that the latter is the way to go but currently it does not seem to be possible without sacrificing the consistency of my build.

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Could you elaborate why you can’t build and publish the plugin with Gradle?

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Because I already have a rather complex build set-up that relies on Maven: https://github.com/raphw/byte-buddy

I managed to integrate building the plugin into this build but the built artifact is not available in any repository during the release phase which is why I need to reference the dependency to the main project locally. This makes it impossible to trigger the release from Gradle even if I bound the Maven release goal to the Gradle release task.

I think the easiest solution would be to manually transport the artifact via a script at the end of the build.

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I understand the problem now, thanks!

My suggestion would be to create a dummy Gradle build for your core project which only takes the jar built by Maven and exposes it as its main artifact. Roughly like this:

apply plugin: 'base'

group = 'your.group.id '
version = 'your.version'

artifacts {
  'default' file('target/core.jar')
}

You then include it in your settings.gradle like this:

includeFlat 'core'

Now you can use a project dependency in your plugin’s build.

dependencies {
  compile project(':core')
}

This will

  • pick up the jar built by Maven
  • publish the correct dependency metadata (a dependency on your.group.id:core:your.version)

Hope that helps :slight_smile:

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Great, thanks for the suggestion. I will try to incorporate this some time!

One last question: Will the Gradle plugin release process also upload the dependency to the plugin repository or does it rely on the linked dependencies?

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It will only upload your actual plugin. It’s dependencies need to be on JCenter or Maven Central.

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