Gradle Play Plugin

Documentation

• User manual

• Javadocs

• Samples

Development

Minimum requirements

To engage in the development of the plugin, follow the minimum requirements shown in the table below.

Tool	Minimum Version
JDK	Oracle JDK or OpenJDK 8.x, anything higher won’t work with Scala 2.11
Gradle	5.1 or higher
IDE	IntelliJ 2018.2 or higher

Executing the build

The plugin follows the standard conventions of a Java project modeled with Gradle. Furthermore, the project defines a task for running integration tests. To compile the code, execute all tests and build the plugin’s artifact, run the following command.

Linux & MacOSX

./gradlew build

Windows

gradlew.bat build

Working in the IDE

Importing the project into IntelliJ is straight forward. From the menu select File > Open…​ > Open as Project and point it to the build.gradle.kts file. In the following pop-up window, ensure that the default Gradle Wrapper is selected and "Create separate module per source set" is checked.

Release

The project currently doesn’t define a release process that can be triggered by running a single task. Following the process below.

1. Update the release notes and release date in changelog file.

2. Create and push a tag for the source code.

3. Build the binary artifact and publish it to the Gradle Plugin Portal by running the task publishPlugins.

4. Build and publish the Javadocs and the user guide by running the task gitPublishPush.

5. Manually update the plugin version for all samples in the directory src/docs/samples. Commit and push the changes to GitHub.

The following paragraphs explain some of the steps in more detail.

Generating documentation

The markup language for the user guide of this plugin is AsciiDoc. Documentation sources sit in the directory src/docs. To generate the HTML version of the plugin user guide, run the task asciidoctor. The generated HTML will be available in the directory build/asciidoc/html5.

Publishing documentation to GitHub Pages

Documentation (user guide & Javadocs) is hosted on GitHub Pages. To publish the documentation to GitHub Pages, execute the task gitPublishPush. Make sure to provide the required GitHub token by passing the system property -Dorg.ajoberstar.grgit.auth.username=$GH_TOKEN.