I'm trying to use it inside `subprojects { }` but so far is not letting me :trollface:

# gradle

[x80486]

I'm trying to use it inside subprojects { } but so far is not letting me 🧌

[gildor]

It should work

subprojects {
  dependencies {}
}

Also you can apply dependencies to modules with specific plugin

[x80486]

> Configure project :
Evaluating root project 'kotlin-akka2' using build file '/home/gorre/Workshop/Development/kotlin/kotlin-akka2/build.gradle.kts'.

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/gorre/Workshop/Development/kotlin/kotlin-akka2/build.gradle.kts' line: 30

* What went wrong:
Configuration with name 'compile' not found.

[x80486]

...and this is my "main" `build.gradle.kts`:

[x80486]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/files/U5RAC8PAQ/FBLU0NAG7/koltin-akka2.kt

[gildor]

this is because Gradle doesn’t know which configuration is available on your sub project and do not generated type safe accessor compile for you

[gildor]

use "compile"("some:dep:1.2.3") instead

[gildor]

it’s a way to add some dependency to particular configuration dynamically

[x80486]

I have something working right now...but still, I can't do what I want, either in the way you propose it or without the double quotes...will play with that a little bit more

[gildor]

What is your problem now?

[x80486]

I mean, the same:

subprojects {
  dependencies {}
}

[x80486]

...I'm expecting that to work, so I don't have to repeat the same dependencies again and again on every subproject's build script

[gildor]

Yes, and it works for many of my company projects and my personal projects

[gildor]

Maybe you could show same sample and explain what is not working for your

[x80486]

https://gitlab.com/vadimvera/kotlin-akka2

[x80486]

...basically, I'm trying to delete the dependencies { ... } block from `mod-*`'s build.gradle.kts and have that block only in ${root.project}/build.gradle.kts

[x80486]

I currently have the same setup in another Gradle project, but this one using Kotlin DSL just doesn't work so far...maybe I'm missing something

[gildor]

Check my PR with changes:
https://gitlab.com/vadimvera/kotlin-akka2/merge_requests/1

[gildor]

I updated your build.gradle.kts
I don’t see any problems to just move it to submodule block. as you can see I just extracted dependencies.
I made a few other changes of config with my comments, but they are not related on dependencies sharing

[gildor]

sorry, forgot to commit changes of other files. Fixed, updated PR

[gildor]

as you can see each of your submodules have now only 1 line of config - description

[gildor]

Also, I do not want to say that problem of configuration of submodules doesn’t exist, there is big discussion about this. There is a few options, but because of dynamic nature of such config it’s not so straight forward.

[x80486]

I didn't know 🙂 ...also, the quotes around the "compile", "testCompile", etc. is a required thing? That looks weird...like super weird. I hope that changes in the future...

[x80486]

Thanks for the changes! It works now! 😂👏

[gildor]

It’s weird, because it’s dynamic, if you don’t like this syntax use desugared version: add("compile", "your:dependency:1.2.3")

And yes, it’s required thing, as I mentioned on my first comment:
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C19FD9681/p1530853992000059?thread_ts=1530848619.000148&cid=C19FD9681
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C19FD9681/p1530854016000033?thread_ts=1530848619.000148&cid=C19FD9681

Static accessor for configuration is not a global thing, different plugins provide different configurations, so kotlin-dsl do not allow you to use accessors that probably doesn’t exist for this module, because you apply configuration dynamically.

[gildor]

compile is configuration of Kotlin plugin, and because you apply this plugin dynamically (on runtime of build), you have to use dynamic syntax, no type safe checks. Exactly the same happening in Groovy, but there Gradle handles all dynamic method calls
To use static typed accessors you must use plugins dsl block, but unfortunately you cannot share this for multiple plugins