the preferred way to store variables for versions is in buil kotlinlang #gradle

11/21/2018, 9:36 AM

the preferred way to store variables for versions is in buildSrc, but what if my buildSrc also requires variables? buildSrcBuildSrc/?

11/21/2018, 9:38 AM

What is exactly requires variables,

buildSrc/build.gradle

or some code in

buildSrc/src

11/21/2018, 9:38 AM

versions,e.g. for spring boot to align all deps

implementation(“org.springframework.boot😒pring-boot-starter-actuator:${Versions.springBootVersion}“)

11/21/2018, 9:39 AM

and where do you have those dependencies? In

buildSrc/build.gradle

11/21/2018, 9:39 AM

in build.gradle.kts and buildSrc/build.gradle.kts

the ones in buildSrc are basically for custom gradle tasks

11/21/2018, 9:40 AM

Then the only way to move them to some external config, such as gradle.properties and read

11/21/2018, 9:41 AM

not a fan of that, I’d like to keep that on .gitignore because you can also configure stuff like java path

11/21/2018, 9:41 AM

Or just define in

buildSrc/build.gradle

and pass as system properties or some similar mechanism and use for your

Versions

java path in Gradle config?

11/21/2018, 9:42 AM

org.gradle.java.home=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.6.0_45 org.gradle.jvmargs =-XX:MaxPermSize=64m

for instance

11/21/2018, 9:42 AM

anyway, you always can have some custom config file

11/21/2018, 9:42 AM

can I just parse a JSON file?

11/21/2018, 9:42 AM

Any config file

that can be read by build script

11/21/2018, 9:43 AM

is there a way to parse the file only once

and not on each access?

11/21/2018, 9:43 AM

once? Per Gradle run?

11/21/2018, 9:43 AM

like on gradle start parse it into a “global”?

11/21/2018, 9:44 AM

You can parse it in build script and try to pass some properties to code, but probably just read it second time is easier

11/21/2018, 9:45 AM

hm, ok, thank you

singleton I guess then

11/21/2018, 9:46 AM

But you cannot have singleton shared between your buildSrc/build.gradle and buildSrc/src/*

Of course you can cache result of parsing, but you problem, as I understand, that you need the same data in config and source files of buildSrc

11/21/2018, 9:53 AM

right, but it would be fine if it was parsed twice