Support for Kotlin DSL Gradle projects dynamically defining dependencies in separate files

[PatilShreyas]

Currently, Dependabot supports pure Gradle projects. But it doesn't work for Kotlin DSL Gradle projects.
For e.g. here is my Android Gradle project with Kotlin DSL and it's failing there. It would be great if Dependabot would support build.gradle.kts projects too.

[shogo82148]

Any updates?
I want dependabot to support build.gradle.kts too.

[dotCipher]

I believe this ties into the discussions in #1164 and #2238

[busches]

Should be fixed with #2680

[PatilShreyas]

@busches Is it really working? Because it's not working for my project

[jurre]

@busches Is it really working? Because it's not working for my project

@PatilShreyas do you have a link to the repo or job ID that's failing that we could look into?

[PatilShreyas]

@jurre I've repo open-source: https://github.com/PatilShreyas/Foodium/

It's not failing here. But it's not raising PR for updates.

For e.g. see this

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[bountin]

It worked nicely for a private project of mine, even with version variables. Thanks a lot for implementing!

[savvisingh]

@PatilShreyas Were you able to make it work, I am having the same issue.

[fizodev]

@savvisingh
I have a private repo with a build src implementation similar to @PatilShreyas (the dependencies & versions are in a separate file rather than build.gradle.kts), I only managed to get dependabot to work by including the dependencies and the versions inside build.gradle.kts file itself. 😐

[savvisingh]

@savvisingh
I have a private repo with a build src implementation similar to @PatilShreyas (the dependencies & versions are in a separate file rather than build.gradle.kts), I only managed to get dependabot to work by including the dependencies and the versions inside build.gradle.kts file itself. 😐

We have a multi-module project so moving the dependencies from common file to each gradle file won't be a good idea and can introduce diff dependencies in diff modules, Let's see if dependabot team can come up with a better solution.

[PatilShreyas]

@PatilShreyas Were you able to make it work, I am having the same issue.

It's not working yet. Still looking for possible solutions.

[gesellix]

Would the central dependency catalog as of Gradle 7.x help? See https://docs.gradle.org/7.0-rc-1/release-notes.html#centralized-versions

[gesellix]

Regarding my last comment: See #3471

[dinomite]

I think the title here is misleading, this isn't an issue with Kotlin buildscripts (I've got many projects with Kotlin buildscripts for which Dependabot is working), but rather not having the dependency version directly in the dependency declaration string.

[mustafaozhan]

I totally agree with @dinomite
And really looking forward to seeing this feature!

[jeffwidman]

@dinomite @mustafaozhan Thanks for the heads up.

I'm not super familiar with Kotlin/Gradle, so can one of you suggest what would be an appropriate issue title that would capture what's actually missing here?

[deivid-rodriguez]

In the sample project given, Dependencies are dynamically defined in Kotlin in a separate file: https://github.com/PatilShreyas/Foodium/blob/04dc75b7a0d22a07accc718d040d3b252b4727ef/buildSrc/src/main/kotlin/Dependencies.kt

While we do support version variables but we don't support that. And it'd be hard to do with the current approach. I guess it'd be better if we could shell out to gradle instead of this kind of thing.

I'm going to adapt the title to try capture this and make it less misleading.