On 3/08/10 5:49 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I wanted to start on exploring how to write and share plugins for gradle.
I know that the plugin class has to implement the Plugin interface -
is there any other configuration required ?
I just found chapter 38 which doesnt say anything explicitly about that.
Can I just set up a "normal" project and use this as a plugin ? Is the
artifact from that any different from a "normal" project
A plugin (or plugins) is bundled up into a regular Jar file. You can use
any type of project which produces a Jar file, so it certainly can be a
regular Java project (or Groovy, or Scala, or Clojure, or whatever).
- and how or where to "store" the plugin to be able to use it in any
project ?
It needs to be published to some kind of repository. A Maven or Ivy
repository would be best, but it can be anywhere that is reachable using
a URL.
I found
http://blog.zenika.com/index.php?post/2009/06/27/Writing-custom-Gradle-plugins%2C-part-1
- but this is with 0.6 which is different i guess.
If there are more recent tutorials or posts about plugins, please send
them to me.
You might also read chapter 37, about implementing custom tasks, as
there's a lot in common between custom tasks and plugins. In particular,
there's an example of how to configure your project to build a jar
containing custom tasks, which happens to be the same way you'd
configure it for custom plugins:
http://gradle.org/0.9-rc-1/docs/userguide/custom_tasks.html#N14820
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