hi new to gradle using the kotlin DSL i declare a `val` but kotlinlang #gradle

val artifactVersion: String by project
buildscript {
  version = artifactVersion // unresolved reference
}
allprojects {
  version = artifactVersion // ok 
}

seeing as these constants are dependent on

project

it’s not clear how I can move this to

buildSrc

and make them available everywhere. if i redeclare them with the

buildscript

block it works but that defeats the purpose (i have many of these constants)

octylFractal

04/22/2020, 7:16 PM

I can't find exact text describing this in the docs (maybe it's missing which would be really bad) -- but essentially the

buildscript {}

block is special and executed prior to everything outside of it, so you can't use variables from outside of the block inside it because they're not executed yet. the

plugins {}

block is similar.

people usually just read the root properties file in

buildSrc

if there's a need to share versions between

buildscript

and

allprojects

-- but usually there's not too many things that should be in both blocks, as they serve very different purposes

e.g. (direct) kotlin dependencies are automatically synced to the version declared by the plugin, so there's no need to declare the version in the

dependencies {}

block

here's a sample of how I've loaded root project properties in the

buildSrc

https://github.com/EngineHub/WorldEdit/blob/master/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts#L40-L46

Peter

04/22/2020, 7:29 PM

thank you Octavia,

version

was just an example, i’m actually grabbing credentials from project properties with a fallback to env variables and then creating multiple

MavenArtifactRepository.() -> Unit

that i can use in the `buildscript`/`allprojects` and

subprojects

blocks

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