Hi. I'm a little disappointed in how little help I get from IntelliJ after switching to kotlin-dsl. For example this snippet:

tasks {
    val moduleTest by existing(Test::class) {
        setForkEvery(1)
    }
}

I'm not able to navigate to the

Test

class or to

setForkEvery

, and I don't get a list of other methods are available besides

setForkEvery

. Is there anything I can do to improve the situation?

I don’t know if this help you, but when you configure gradle tasks inside intellij (using run configurations) you should be able to put breakpoints and inspect your code. But, if the navigation is not working this might not help too much. Did you enabled the auto reload support? In my case I have classes inside my buildSrc module and I can use autocompletion and navigation.

I don't use auto-reload, but click on reload whenever I need to. I'm able to navigate to Libs and Versions (and everything else) in buildSrc, but not to anything in the Gradle API.

what gradle distribution are you using -

bin

or

all

?

Hum, I think you need to add this thing here in your build.gradle.kts inside build.src

compile("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlinVersion")

@tapchicoma: I'm using

all

Is this class here?

.../.gradle/caches/transforms-2/files-2.1/.../unzipped-distribution/gradle-5.6.2/subprojects/testing-jvm/src/main/java/org/gradle/api/tasks/testing/Test.java

If yes I can navigate to it

There's no

unzipped-distribution

anywhere in

~/.gradle/caches/

I don’t know how to solve your problem, but probably is because of that you don’t have autocompletion. You will probably need to add the needed classpath dependencies in your project to have something in your

~/gradle/

and then use the proper autocompletion. This is my guess

I have:

plugins {
   `kotlin-dsl`
}

... in

buildSrc/build.gradle.kts

, and ..

buildscript { 
  dependencies {
      classpath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.3.50") 
      ...
   }
}
apply(plugin = "kotlin")

dependencies {
   compile("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib:1.3.50")
   compile("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8:1.3.50")
   ...
}

... in my regular

build.gradle.kts

Shouldn't that be sufficient? I guess I should create a demo project, this is a pretty large multiproject build with loads of gradle config (also mixed groovy/kotlin config at the time being)