What is the best way to debug gradle plugins?

[venslens (Vens L)]

New to gradle and this forum.

What is the best way to debug the groovy/java code in the plugin class (ex: class TestPlugin implements Plugin)
I have been using prinln - but wondering if there is a better way to debug it line by line ?

[bmuschko (Benjamin Muschko)]

You can remote debug your Gradle build as described here:

How do you attach a debugger to gradle so that I can debug it running a task?

Some more information on this would definitely be helpful. I’ve mad mixed results with eclipse & gradle so far. I have been able to debug java/groovy that’s being called from gradle when running on anther system and using eclipse’s remote java app debug config combined with the GRADLE_OPTS="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5006" Note that this needs to be set in the env, it’s not picked up from ~/.gradle/gradle.properties as documented. Maybe I’m doing somethin…

Make sure to also use the option --no-daemon.

[ZillaG (Chris F)]

I’m new to Gradle plugins too, and Java. But How to debug Gradle Plugins with IntelliJ helped.