I’m working on a (first) custom gradle plugin for ...

# gradle

[Justin]

I’m working on a (first) custom gradle plugin for my team’s projects to use.
I’m creating it for both common tasks but also to have access to the same classes/members across each project’s build.gradle files.
When I apply the plugin inside a project’s build.gradle, I can only see (IDE completion) the Java classes in my plugin.
I can’t see any of the Kotlin classes, but if I sync gradle or build/assemble, it works without any issues (i.e. the task/build does not fail).
But the non-Java class I import is red/unresolved.
Am I missing something?

[tapchicoma]

depends on how you publish/consume your plugin

[Justin]

@tapchicoma what do you mean? what do I need to do to be able to see the kotlin classes in my plugin?

[tapchicoma]

do you also publish your plugin sources artifact? If yes - does it includes plugin kotlin files?

[trevjones]

fwiw code completion in build.gradle files is usually not ideal due to the dynamics making tooling hard. Things I recently did that make things much better are, 1: use build.gradle.kts wherever possible, 2: add plugin dependencies to the api configuration of the buildSrc project which enables that full loading ahead of time.

with those two things you can usually cmd+click into sources from your build files, or even just cmd+o to jump straight to a class that is defined within a plugin jar.

[Justin]

@tapchicoma I currently am just publishing it to mavenLocal(), and the plugin is written mostly in kotlin, yes
@trevjones thanks for the information; if it’s just for use in my build.gradle (or build.gradle.kts), then wouldn’t I want to do implementation instead of api? I wouldn’t want the plugin to be accessible to anyone using my library’s (the consumer of the plugin) artifact

[Justin]

I appreciate both of you helping me out, thanks!