Question, is there a way to change the publication names Kotlin/Multiplatform creates? It currently...

# multiplatform

[Laxystem]

Question, is there a way to change the publication names Kotlin/Multiplatform creates?

It currently creates quest.laxla.gimli:client for the :api:client module, and I would like to create quest.laxla.gimli:api.client instead.

[Adam S]

You can customize the artifact ID,

publishing {
  publications.withType<MavenPublication>().configureEach {
    // customise artifact ID, but this is probably buggy!
    artifactId = "..."
  }
}

but it'll be tricky because there are multiple publications for KMP.

The most robust way is to rename the subproject to api.client.

[Laxystem]

@Adam S the artifact ID also contains the -jvm part, right?

So I could just do, artifactId = "api-client" + artifactId.removePrefix(project.name)

[Laxystem]

I'll have to move the :api:common module to :api tho, so that I won't have api-common-common.

Or wait, does the common publication even have a suffix?

[Adam S]

So I could just do, artifactId = "api-client" + artifactId.removePrefix(project.name)

possibly.... but it depends in what order that modification gets applied. It can get really tricky trying to modify the artifact ID

[Adam S]

Or wait, does the common publication even have a suffix?

No, it shouldn't do (e.g kotest-common)

[Adam S]

it's usually best to have distinct subproject names, because otherwise Gradle gets confused https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/847

[Laxystem]

I see, I'll rename them in settings.gradle.kts.

[Laxystem]

I automated it, and used the opportunity to make the includes look better too.

"util"()
"api" {
    "client"()
    "common"()
    "server"()
}