Hello good people. Is it possible to have 2 versions catalog ( or some trick to merge two of them )?...

# gradle

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Hello good people. Is it possible to have 2 versions catalog ( or some trick to merge two of them )?

The scenario is:
We have the main project and a sub project as a submodule.
Having different dependency versions caused some troubles, so we wanna align them.
sub will have some dependencies in its toml file, but main would need some dependencies that are not available in sub

[Javier]

That was possible before but it was removed, not sure why cc @melix

[Vampire]

Yes, you can have any amount of version catalogs without problem

[Vampire]

What @Javier is referring to is, that you cannot combine / merge multiple toml files into one version catalog easily. But having multiple version catalogs coming from multiple toml files is no problem at all.

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

How to do that? I tried adding 2 create but gave me an error

[Vampire]

Which?

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Insieme the deoendencyManagement

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

I'll back on PC soon and let you know

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Invalid catalog definition:

- Problem: In version catalog libs, you can only call the ‘from’ method a single time.

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

But actually I just noticed that changing name to libs it works 😕

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

like

dependencyResolutionManagement {
  versionCatalogs {
    create("someLibs") { // before libs
      from(files("gradle/libs.versions.toml"))
    }
    create("coreLibs") {
      from(files("sub/gradle/libs.versions.toml"))
    }
  }
}

[Vampire]

libs implicitly imports gradle/libs.versions.toml if it exists, so you cannot import another and thus second file into that catalog. The error is a bit misleading and will hopefully be changed.

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

So basically libs is always created by defo?

[Vampire]

So if you want that libs, just remove it from your code as it is created automatically

[Vampire]

If the file is there, yes

[Vampire]

Convention over configuration like everywhere in Gradle

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Ok, I see! If the file exists then it’s different! Because I got this in pet-project

dependencyResolutionManagement {
  versionCatalogs {
    create("libs") {
      from(files("../gradle/libs.versions.toml"))
    }
  }
}

That’s why I got confused

[Davide Giuseppe Farella]

Thank you so much 🎉