I am trying to reorganize this Android (Java based) library to use the buildSrc folder to define all versions and dependencies as described in this article.
I already set this successfully up for several times for Kotlin bases projects. This time the project is pure Java.
In the buildSrc
folder I created the following buildSrc/src/main/java/org/ligi/snackengage/Dependencies.java
file:
package org.ligi.snackengage;
public class Dependencies {
public static class Android { /* ... */ }
public static class GradlePlugins {
public static final String ANDROID = "com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.6.3";
// ...
}
public static class Libs { /* ... */ }
}
Then I refer to the definitions in the project root build.gradle
among others:
import org.ligi.snackengage.Dependencies.GradlePlugins
apply plugin: "com.github.ben-manes.versions"
buildscript {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
dependencies {
classpath GradlePlugins.ANDROID
classpath GradlePlugins.MAVEN
classpath GradlePlugins.VERSIONS
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
}
Here is the work in progress branch. When I build the project then the following error occurs:
* Where:
Build file 'SnackEngage/build.gradle' line: 12
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'SnackEngage'.
> Could not get unknown property 'GradlePlugins' for object of type
org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.
Here is the build log.
You have defined
GradlePlugins
class as an inner static class ofDependencies
, so you need to useDependencies.GradlePlugins
to access it from your build script.Change your dependencies block as follows:
EDIT you could also use a static import, as follows: