Is there a way to read `gradle.properties` in a project root folder from a submodule? It appears tha...

# gradle

[Allan Wang]

Is there a way to read gradle.properties in a project root folder from a submodule? It appears that the file must be within the submodule for it to be read

[gildor]

rootProject.properties

[gildor]

Actually not sure that those properties are not exposed to submodules automatically

[Allan Wang]

I tried root project already. This is specifically for build src, so I guess it might be an independent project?

[gildor]

But build src is not a submodule at all, it’s completely different thing. buildSrc is just a separate gradle project, just by convention included to your build script classpath, so it have to be compiled before your rootProject even configured, because it’s part of build system now

[gildor]

So, returning to your question if we talking about sharing properties with buildSrc

[gildor]

In most cases you should keep any properties/configs in buildSrc, it allows you to share any classes, so no need to use dynamic properties file, so it’s a good thing

[gildor]

Bad thing that to configure buildSrc project itself you probably want to extract some versions to buildSrc/gradle.properties, and you of course can use it in build.gradle, settings.gradle of buildSrc, but you also want to share those versions with your main project config and there is no perfect solution.
Ultimate is just read buildSrc/gradle.properties manually somewhere in buildSrc/src and expose it as part of build script class path (directly, or by exposing some Versions class etc)