Where to put the gradle.properties file

Question

I am following the Artifactory 1-min Setup. I have Artifactory up and running on my localhost, and now I am trying to integrate it with Intellij/Gradle.

The artifactory webapp gives a gradle.properties and build.gradle file, so I'm trying to start with adding these to my IntelliJ project. However, I don't know where to put the gradle.properties file.

I tried copying thegradle.properties contents (key=value pairs) to gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties, unfortunately doing that does not make the keys accessible in the build.gradle file. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Gradle looks for gradle.properties files in these places:

• in project build dir (that is where your build script is)
• in sub-project dir
• in gradle user home (defined by the GRADLE_USER_HOME environment variable, which if not set defaults to USER_HOME/.gradle)

Properties from one file will override the properties from the previous ones (so file in gradle user home has precedence over the others, and file in sub-project has precedence over the one in project root).

Reference: https://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/build_environment.html