What the difference in applying gradle plugin

groovy gradle gradle-plugin
Yevgen Kulik picture Yevgen Kulik · Sep 2, 2015 · Viewed 48.3k times · Source

I don't understand gradle plugins block

apply plugin: 'someplugin1'
apply plugin: 'maven'

and other one:

plugins {
   id 'org.hidetake.ssh' version '1.1.2'
}

In first block We have some plugin name. in second one package and version. I don't understand where I should use first block and when second one.

Answer

cjstehno picture cjstehno · Sep 2, 2015

The plugins block is the newer method of applying plugins, and they must be available in the Gradle plugin repository. The apply approach is the older, yet more flexible method of adding a plugin to your build.

The new plugins method does not work in multi-project configurations (subprojects, allprojects), but will work on the build configuration for each child project.

I would think that as functionality progresses, the plugins configuration method will overtake the older approach, but at this point both can be and are used concurrently.

Related questions

Gradle does not find tools.jar

I am using javadoc doclets with gradle, so I need to use the package tools.jar, which is in the lib folder from the jdk (1.6.0_26 in my case). The point is that gradle does not take it automatically, so I …

Read More
Could not find method compile() for arguments Gradle

Looked around for this solution for much too long now, and I'm not sure if I missed it or just misstyped something, but my Gradle script will not compile. I am migrating to Gradle, and am very new with it. …

Read More
How to pass parameters or arguments into a gradle task

I have a gradle build script into which I am trying to include Eric Wendelin's css plugin - http://eriwen.github.io/gradle-css-plugin/ Its easy enough to implement, and because I only want minification (rather than combining and gzipping), I've …

Read More