In the first part we have seen how configuration cache is working. Now I will briefly show what problems configuration cache brings to plugin authors with possible solutions. Searching for problems There are two types of problems you may face: On fi...
Gradle configuration cache becomaing mandatory in gradle 9. This affects all plugin authors as configuration cache must be supported by plugin explicitly (actually, plugin just should not do disallowed things). Article split into two parts (kind of t...
To debug a gradle plugin in the real project: Open plugin project and add “remote” configuration (with defaults - it would be port 5005) Run gradle: ./gradlew task -Dorg.gradle.debug=true (it will halt waiting for remote debugger attachment) Run r...
Note: post covers only Gradle, but it could be easilly adopted for Maven (github action would be nearly the same - all important moments described; some maven-related links included) Suppose you developed a library and related examples in a single re...
Github packages is an easy way to publish current snapshot versions. The biggest problem with it is access token requirement for accessing published packages (no free access). Yes, I know, there is a super simple jitpack for this, but it can’t be use...
A real-life case how to force gradle accepting dependency with higer java version requirement. My animalsniffer gradle plugin targets java 8 (keeps minimum compatiblity): java { sourceCompatibility = 1.8 } Now, in order to add android support, I...
Recently, I have to update binary release github action for my yaml-updater project and finally added debug and re-run abilities. So I decided to describe it here as it could be easilly reused for other projects (should be a good bootstrap for anyone...
I was always using gradle allprojects and suprojects sections as a very handy way for multi-module projects configuration. But, it appears, that using these shortcuts is officially a bad practice. Quote from gradle forum thread: Consider switching f...
It is a common need to intercept traffic between servers. For example, last time I need this to verify keycloak logout request correctness (sent by my application). Mitmproxy is ideal for such things. It's a small and handy reverse proxy, but with ab...