hello! any idea why publish to sonatype would not ...

# gradle

[Dariusz Kuc]

hello! any idea why publish to sonatype would not include my custom gradle plugin.jar? I’m publishing to both Maven Central (through publish) and Plugin Portal (publishPlugin) and while last publish was successful I only got pom, module, javadoc and sources (from default maven publication) but no jar (in sonatype).

My root project config:
https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/blob/master/build.gradle.kts#L172 <- I’m explicitly configuring mavenJava publication for all projects except Gradle plugin as it explicitly creates its own pluginMaven publication.

Gradle plugin config:
https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/blob/master/plugins/graphql-kotlin-gradle-plugin/build.gradle.kts

publishToMavenLocal correctly publishes the plugin jar so it would appear that pluginMaven publication already contains the jar -> any ideas?

[Dariusz Kuc]

https://oss.sonatype.org/#nexus-search;quick~graphql-kotlin-gradle-plugin

[gammax]

Just out of curiosity: why are you interested in publishing a plugin to Sonatype? Isn’t Gradle Portal already enough?

[Dariusz Kuc]

Afaik Gradle Portal would cover most of the use cases but there are some fringe cases (eg private artifactories that only sync to Maven Central - you would specify dependency on plugin in buildscript) that might not work

[Dariusz Kuc]

Also consistency - all other libs in the project are published to sonatype

[Arun]

Instead of creating a new publication mavenJava you can simply override details of the publication the java-gradle-plugin will be creating. I think it's called pluginMaven.

[Dariusz Kuc]

Yep thats what I do (default mavenJava is created for all other libs)

[Dariusz Kuc]

(Originally wasnt and was hitting a sonatype error as both auto generated pluginMaven and my mavenJava publication were generating jar with same coordinates)

[Dariusz Kuc]

turns out it looks like some quirk with sonatype search, actual jars are getting published https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/expediagroup/graphql-kotlin-gradle-plugin/3.0.0-RC8.2/

[Dariusz Kuc]

and https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.expediagroup/graphql-kotlin-gradle-plugin/3.0.0-RC8/jar

[Dariusz Kuc]

😕