Crash Course in building your First Gradle Plugin
summary
A minimal Gradle plugin is built that converts a project graph into Mermaid JS diagrams and is published as a module called module-graphing; implementation uses the Java Gradle Plugin, an abstract extension class with @Inject Project properties, an abstract task with annotated action and declared inputs/outputs for caching, and an apply() entry point that prints "did something" when configured. Tests use JUnit 5 with fast unit tests via ProjectBuilder and 700 ms functional tests via Gradle TestKit, and publishing uses the publishToMavenLocal flow so consuming projects add mavenLocal and the plugin runs successfully.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:59Gradle plugin basics
- 7:54Plugin structure and components
- 14:57Testing Gradle plugins
- 21:12Publishing plugins
- 23:57Consuming plugins
- 25:42Live demo and next steps
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