Hi everyone, I just created a new project with Kotlin Gradle scripts. I have a property defined in

gradle.properties

:

com.foo.myproperty=bar

What is the idiomatic way to read that property from scripts ? The property delegate syntax

val myProperty by project

makes it mandatory to declare a variable with the same name as the property. Moreover, it seems that there is no

settings.property("com.foo.myproperty")

function.

the delegate is the way to go unless you have variable names incompatible with kotlin variable naming. in settings it's just

by settings

instead of

by project

if your names are not compatible with kotlin var naming, then:

extra["your.prop.name"]

in both project and settings, if you're nesting it you could spefity the receiver explicitely, just in case:

settings.extra["..."]

I tend to use

findProperty("com.foo.myproperty") as? String

can you do a delegate for a property with dots? that's most of them

for properties with dots, I've ended up just using

project.properties["name.of.the.property"].toString()