Hey there, we want to write a gradle plugin that t...

# gradle

[jakiej]

Hey there, we want to write a gradle plugin that takes a kotlin source folder (some DSL), and then compile it and load a top level val from it. is this doable and how?

[gildor]

You can do that using buildSrc

[gildor]

something like that:
https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/tree/master/samples/multi-kotlin-project-with-buildSrc

[jakiej]

thanks, but the point was to use the plugin to replace buildSrc

[gildor]

But why? You can wriate a plugin in buildSrc (kotlin-dsl also has example of this approach), the main difference with buildSrc approach is that you must apply it for each project where you want to use it

[gildor]

because you original message exactly describes how buildSrc works (without plugins)

[mkobit]

does the latest release feature satisfy your use case?
https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/releases/tag/v0.16.3

specifically the Precompiled script plugins section

[jakiej]

it's very interesting, but not something that we need. our use case is that a plugin user would provide a kotlin file (our know config DSL, not for gradle) as a input to our plugin.