I am developing a Gradle plugin according to the documentation. Am I correct that we can't (or won't...

# gradle

[Arjan van Wieringen]

I am developing a Gradle plugin according to the documentation. Am I correct that we can't (or won't) use the Kotlin JVM plugin for writing plugins? But it is as follows?

plugins {
    `java-gradle-plugin`
    `kotlin-dsl`
}

sourceSets {
    main {
        kotlin {
            srcDir("src/main/kotlin")
        }
    }
}

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/custom_plugins.html#sec:custom_plugins_standalone_project

EDIT: well.... actually that just works, after removing kotlin-dsl . I am a bit uncertain whether or not kotlin-dsl was needed. I suppose it wasnt. A plugin is 'just' another project.

[hfhbd]

You don’t need the first plugin too. The sourceSet is also not needed. But the kotlin-dsl plugin adds the SAM plugin.

[Arjan van Wieringen]

Yeah I removed it. I need the first one for:

gradlePlugin {
    plugins {
        create("wiredPlugin") {
            id = "nl.helicotech.wired.plugin"
            implementationClass = "nl.helicotech.wired.plugin.WiredPlugin"
        }
    }
}

[Vampire]

kotlin-dsl applies java-gradle-plugin, kotlin-dsl.base, and kotlin-dsl.precompiled-script-plugins plugins
kotlin-dsl.base plugin applies embedded-kotlin, adds gradleKotlinDsl() to the dependencies of compileOnly and testImplementation configurations, and configures the Kotlin DSL compiler plugins for example for proper SAM conversion for Action and similar.