Hi all, I’ve got a gradle task that I would like to distribute. It’s just a task that allow to run a category of test:

task checkModules(type: Test) {
    testLogging {
        showStandardStreams = true
    }
    useJUnit {
        includeCategories 'org.koin.test.category.CheckModuleTest'
    }
}

It’s for a library. Can I distribute it as a Gradle plugin?

You mean put it on the Gradle Plugin Portal ? Of course but you'll have to package it as a jar, give it a plugin id, etc, there's some boilerplate

yes, but that’s ok. I want to allow to run easily this CheckModuleTest category without asking users to write this task

This page says you can do it in 12 minutes 🙂 https://guides.gradle.org/publishing-plugins-to-gradle-plugin-portal/

cool, thanks

Yes, you'll need a complete gradle project (hence the boilerplate) which applies these plugins:

plugins {
    id 'java-gradle-plugin' 
    id 'com.gradle.plugin-publish' version '0.10.1' 
}

this is for a library, will be better to have the complete stuff then 🙂

If you want full plugin support, that's the "A standalone project" section in this link

ok, thanks 👍

I was just checking and apparently, users can also apply plugins from a url so if you were to host your snippet on github, you could just ask your users to do

apply(from: uri("<https://raw.github.com/username/check-modules-gradle>"))

I think that would work and would be much faster.

yeah, this is a convenient way to go fast 🙂

Yep, I've never done it but documentation says that that other schemes that file:// are supported.