Dear gradle plugin authors. While working on my npm-publish plugin I've discovered how painful it is...

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[Big Chungus]

Dear gradle plugin authors. While working on my npm-publish plugin I've discovered how painful it is to write gradle files for functional tests efficiently. So I've written a single-file DSL for you to drop-in to you projects that puts at least some formatting/validation on gradle buildscript generation. It could be used for any kotlin file generation as well. Here's a snippet and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

[gildor]

Hmm, not quite sure what is advantage comparing to just a string with file content, it can be more dynamic, but does it really need for tests?

[Big Chungus]

Mainly autocompletion and formatting. Also structure validation to avoid missing/extra "}" or ")"

[gildor]

Formatting and basic syntax validation works fine with language injection for strings

[Big Chungus]

Wait what? How do i do that??

[gildor]

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-language-injections.html

[Big Chungus]

Man, wish i knew that beforehand 😀