I'm making a multiplatform library and I wanted to...

# gradle

[Jan]

I'm making a multiplatform library and I wanted to ask how I could make my actual code read a property from gradle. I have my version defined in buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Versions and I somehow want to access a value from there in my library. How could I do that?

[CLOVIS]

There are multiple ways to do it. One of the most common is to have a Gradle task that creates a file in your resources with the version number, and then your application can read it like any other file

[Adam S]

https://stackoverflow.com/q/74743976/4161471

[Vampire]

Besides that, you should consider switching to version catalogs. Even though it wouldn't change the answer to this question. 🙂

[Jan]

yea I using version catalogs for everything besides my library version because for some reason the version didn't appear during publishing of the library / ? But otherwise they work

[Jan]

that was the problem:

group = "group"
version = libs.versions.project.get() //doesn't work

might be my mistake

[Vampire]

Oh, I see.
Never tried that, I usually have group and version in gradle.properties

[Vampire]

But I would have said this should work too

[andylamax]

I use version catalogs for my project and it works when set on afterEvaluate

[Vampire]

yikes, you said the bad word!