Hey, with gradle kotlin scripts, one of the things...

# gradle

[dharrigan]

Hey, with gradle kotlin scripts, one of the things that I find a bit toooo noisy compared to plain groovy gradle scripts, is the necessity to put in ${property("foo")} inside dependencies definitions, i.e., compile("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:${property("protobufVersion")}") I know there is another way of defining the var inside the kts file, var foo="1.2" then using $foo inside the dependency definition. The latter being more "groovy" like (without the var definition). Is there no shorter way of expressing this?

[Czar]

if you want to use val already defined in gradle.properties you can do this:

val protobufVersion by project

compile("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:$protobufVersion")

Which is still more verbose than groovy, but groovy has nonexistent methods interceptors and stuff, it isn't possible in Kotlin.

[dharrigan]

Thank you! 🙂