```project(":child:grandchild") { plugins { id("war") id("org.springframework.boot") } depend...

# gradle

[Czar]

project(":child:grandchild") {
	plugins {
		id("war")
		id("org.springframework.boot")
	}
	dependencies {
		providedRuntime("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat")
		//...
	}
	//...
}

gives me unresolved reference: providedRuntime
Any ideas?

[eskatos]

🤔 looks like a bug
The plugins {} block is only supported for the current project, not when doing config injection with [all|sub]projects {} or project(":path") {}
The bug here is that you couldn’t notice, it should have failed telling you this is not possible.

[eskatos]

To apply plugins to subprojects, use project(":path") { apply { plugin("some-id") } }

[eskatos]

Could you report an issue to gradle/kotlin-dsl about not failing when the plugins {} block is used in a project configuration block?

[Czar]

Yup, I confirm that with apply{ plugin("") } and "providedRuntime"() it works

[Czar]

@eskatos https://github.com/gradle/kotlin-dsl/issues/625
Sorry for the cumbersome name, I do quite often fail in that regard 🙂

[Czar]

By the way is there a trick to make kotlin generate providedRuntime accessor here? So that I can omit the quotes?

[eskatos]

That’s totally fine! Thanks a lot

[eskatos]

Nope, no way yet, but we are considering how to achieve this

[Czar]

Ok, not a huge problem, just a nice-to-have 🙂
Thank you!