[gradle-user] Multi-project: how to run uploadArchives, depending on subproject to define the version?

[Luis Muniz]

Hi

I'm discovering gradle, and though it is really nice, the learning curve is
steeper than I thought when you start doing funkier stuff. This is obviously
because I am uninformed both in the gradle implementatino and in the
complexity of building engines.

This is my issue

I am trying to factor out common tasks to the parent project, to do this, I
have defined the tasks in the following way, on the root project:

subprojects {
    apply plugin: 'groovy'
    apply plugin: 'maven'
    apply from: "$rootDir/cobertura.gradle"
    apply from: "$rootDir/idea.gradle"

    repositories {
[...]
    }

    configurations {
[...]
    }

    dependencies {
[...]
    }

[...(etc, etc) ]

   uploadArchives {task->
        repositories.mavenDeployer {
            uniqueVersion = true
            name = 'httpDeployer'
            configuration = configurations.deployerJars
            def repoURL = "http://artifactory:8081/artifactory";
            repoURL += version.contains("-SNAPSHOT") ?
"/libs-snapshots-local" : "/libs-releases-local"

            repository(url: repoURL) {
                authentication(userName: "a", password: "b")
            }
        }
    }

}



in my subproject's build.gradle, i define:

version = '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

dependencies {
[...]
}



However, the version property seems to not be defined in time for the
uploadJars task to get it from the subproject.

I have been trying different things now, until I realized that I'm possibly
taking the problem the wrong way around.

I just would like to check with the community that this is the way to do
this.

Thanks for any help.

Luis