I'm getting: ``` Line 13: kotlin("plugin.seri...

# refreshversions

[dave08]

I'm getting:

Line 13:     kotlin("plugin.serialization") version versionFor(Kotlin.stdlib)
                                                      ^ Unresolved reference: versionFor

for:

kotlin("plugin.serialization") version versionFor(Kotlin.stdlib)

in my plugins block... I have an import for it on top...

[Big Chungus]

Plugin blocks is a special snowflake and is not actually part of the buildscript. Therefore it uses an entirely different classpath, preventing you from using "regular" plugin utilities.

[dave08]

Oh.. so I can't pull kotlin's version to that somehow?

[Big Chungus]

However, if you have version.kotlin=xxx in your versions.properties, you don;t need to specify the version for any of kotlin's subplugins (like serialization) as they all will use the same version

[Big Chungus]

Just leave it as

plugins {
  kotlin("plugin.serialization")
}

and set version in versions.properties under version.kotlin=xxx key

[dave08]

Doesn't work... I'm at 1.5.32 and it pulled 1.6.10...

[Big Chungus]

Did it? What's the version set in versions.properties? Do you hard-code kotlin version in any of the buildscripts (outside versions.properties file)

[dave08]

version.kotlin=1.5.32

no other hard coded ones... unless the json library pulls in 1.6.10...?

[Big Chungus]

This is very likely seeing as gradle resolves version conflicts by picking highest version

[dave08]

What should I do about this?

[Big Chungus]

Also remember that serialization plugin != serialization runtime dependency

[Big Chungus]

Inspect your dependency tree to see what's bumping up your runtime dependency version

[Big Chungus]

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/viewing_debugging_dependencies.html

[Big Chungus]

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/viewing_debugging_dependencies.html

[dave08]

How do I exclude stdlib from here... it seems like that's the problem

[Big Chungus]

I'd downgrade the lib instead of excluding stdlib

[Big Chungus]

But if you're set on mismatching runtime/plugin versions, have a look at this (not recommended) https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_downgrade_and_exclude.html

[Big Chungus]

configurations {
    "compileClasspath" {
        resolutionStrategy.force("commons-codec:commons-codec:1.9")
    }
}

[dave08]

Yeah... I guess 1.3.1 still supports 1.5.31... not too bad. Thanks!