I am struggling a lot with gradle-metadata feature...

# multiplatform

[altavir]

I am struggling a lot with gradle-metadata feature. I have a module (this one: http://npm.mipt.ru:8081/artifactory/webapp/#/artifacts/browse/tree/General/gradle-dev-local/hep/dataforge/dataforge-meta) which is compiled and deployed with enableFeaturePreview("GRADLE_METADATA"). And then I have a library which is also build with gradle meta. According to documentation, all I need is to declare it in the commonMain block of mpp, and I will automatically get dependencies for all branches. It does not work. I have to write platform-specific dependencies for all platforms and additional metadata for common. What am I doing wrong?

[altavir]

Wrong link. Have to specify version: http://npm.mipt.ru:8081/artifactory/webapp/#/artifacts/browse/tree/General/gradle-dev-local/hep/dataforge/dataforge-meta/0.1.2

[Marc Knaup]

The .module files are missing in the repo.
How do you publish?

[altavir]

I published via artifactory plugin. So this is the reason. I thought that artifactory just does not show them. Everything is fine on local maven repository

[altavir]

Yeah, for some reason, it just does not deploy module file

[louiscad]

I stopped using artifactory and use a second bintray repo not synced to jcenter for dev versions (that I used to call snapshots)

[altavir]

Well, the bintray publication is also a problem. I failed to deploy with parameters I have. For artifactory it at least deploys something

[louiscad]

For bintray, it works for me for this library: https://github.com/LouisCAD/Splitties

[Marc Knaup]

Where is it hidden? That looks complicated.

[louiscad]

@Marc Knaup Are you asking Alexander or me? If me, what is "it"?

[Marc Knaup]

Your Bintray code setup

[altavir]

It seems to be using manual bintray deployment. Not the thing I want to think about.

[Marc Knaup]

Yeah the Bintray plugin works quite well 🤔

[altavir]

Not for mpp. I get Could not get unknown property 'conf' for task ':dataforge-context:bintrayUpload' of type com.jfrog.bintray.gradle.tasks.BintrayUploadTask and standard workaround, I found does not help

[Marc Knaup]

what's the Gradle configuration?

[altavir]

https://github.com/altavir/dataforge-core/blob/dev/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/npm-bintray.gradle.kts

[Marc Knaup]

hmm, no idea if the difference fixes the cause but mine works differently:
https://github.com/fluidsonic/fluid-library/blob/master/sources/FluidLibraryVariantConfiguration.kt#L115

[Marc Knaup]

why do you set the publications inside the Bintray task 🤔

[Marc Knaup]

I don't use Kotlin/Native though which may be relevant here

[altavir]

It is a recommended remedy for this type of error

[altavir]

I do not use it either. Just copied solution from somewhere

[altavir]

It worked for kmath yet I by mistake published all artifacts withe same name

[altavir]

@Marc Knaup Your modification of workaround seems to be working

[altavir]

But is still does not publish module files 😞 I will check publication block then

[Marc Knaup]

That's what this is for:
https://github.com/fluidsonic/fluid-library/blob/master/sources/FluidLibraryVariantConfiguration.kt#L149

[altavir]

yeah, i've included it, but files with module extension are still missing. Probably publications are not configured properly

[louiscad]

@Marc Knaup The bintray uploading code is in buildSrc, in the BintrayUpload.kt file. Everything publishing and dependencies related is in buildSrc for reuse across modules.