Hello, I am trying to add to my buildSrc file the dependency for `org.gradle.kotlin.dsl` but I can'...

# gradle

[Javier]

Hello, I am trying to add to my buildSrc file the dependency for org.gradle.kotlin.dsl but I can't find it.

[Javier]

I tried this, https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.gradle/gradle-kotlin-dsl/6.1.1, but it is not found

[Javier]

Or a way to access to the implementation, testImplementation, etc. accessors without using them as string

[eskatos]

Have a read at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#sec:kotlin-dsl_plugin
You don’t “depend on the kotlin-dsl”, instead you apply the plugin documented above.

[Javier]

Hi @eskatos, I know it but I am creating my own plugins inside buildSrc, then I got implementation cant be used directly so I have to create my own function directly to use it. This can be tedious because there are a lot of functions, even I have two different implementation ...

fun DependencyHandler.implementation(dependencyNotation: Any): Dependency? {
    return add("implementation", dependencyNotation)
}

[eskatos]

if you want to get the type safe accessors generated you need to use the plugins {} block to apply other plugins

[eskatos]

assuming the screenshot above is from a precompiled script plugin

[Javier]

But if I use the plugin {} block then later it can't compile where I use

plugins {
    MyPlugin
}

[eskatos]

it should work if your plugin ID is MyPlugin

[eskatos]

ah no, for plugins that are siblings, you need to spell the ID

plugins {
    id("MyPlugin")
}

[Javier]

I have not added a id directly, I only put the code of the screenshot inside MyPlugin.gradle.kts

[eskatos]

I guess we’re not talking about the same thing. Sorry for the confusion.

In your screenshot above, try replacing

apply(plugin = Plugins.androidLibrary)
apply<AndroidBaseSetupPlugin>()
apply<AndroidBaseAppSetupPlugin>()

by a plugins {} block that applies the same plugins (need to be by plugin ID)

then you’ll get the type safe accessors to e.g. implementation()

[Javier]

Yeah, I got the problem, I cant use Plugins.androidLibrary as id(...) if I put the string directly it works. I will have to create it as ProjectDependencySpec to add to the plugins block, thank you 🙂

[eskatos]

Happy to help!

[Javier]

@eskatos I am having another use case where I haven't any plugin so I can access to dependencies block but not to every function

[eskatos]

Type safe accessors aren’t available for all use cases, that’s expected. See https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/kotlin_dsl.html#type-safe-accessors for the list of use cases and how to deal with their absence.