Gradle alternate to mvn install

I have 2 different project build on mvn. I am trying to replace to Gradle.

Project 1 is an SDK, and project 2 is using that sdk (example).

In the time of maven it creates artifact using mvn install which adds the whole project into local repository.

I like to work in gradle like that. I like project 1 build.gradle need to post it as a gradle local repository and then example project need to use it.

In maven we do mvn install which adds a project artifact into .m2 folder but how to do in gradle so what i can add a project artefact's into the local repository.

Any way that I can do so?

4 Answers

sdk/build.gradle:

apply plugin: "maven" group = "foo" version = "1.0" 

example/build.gradle:

repositories { mavenLocal() } dependencies { compile "foo:sdk:1.0" } 

$sdk> gradle install $example> gradle build 

You may be looking for:

gradle publishToMavenLocal 

Available with:

apply plugin: 'maven-publish' 

See: Maven Publish Plugin

Check out Gradle's documentation on multi-project builds.

Here's an example, with some extra dependencies. Just call gradle install in the root folder, and all will be built and put to your local repo.

Folder structure:

root +--> build.gradle +--> settings.gradle +--> sdk | +--> build.gradle +--> example +--> build.gradle 

root/build.gradle:

allprojects { apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'maven' group = 'myGroup' version = '0.1-SNAPSHOT' } 

root/settings.gradle:

include 'sdk' include 'example' 

root/sdk/build.gradle:

dependencies { // just an example external dep. compile group:'commons-lang', name:'commons-lang', version:'2.3' } 

root/example/build.gradle:

dependencies { compile project(':sdk') compile group:'log4j', name:'log4j', version:'1.2.16' } 

You need to publish your own library to your local repository. You can do that in the following way:

1. Add maven-publish plugin:

   plugins { // your other plugins come here... id 'maven-publish' } 

2. Add the publishing section to your build file:

   publishing { publications { myCoolLibrary(MavenPublication) { from components.java } } } 

3. Run gradle build publishToMavenLocal

   Find more details in the documentation.