Gradle Github info plugin
About
Plugin generates common github links (like repository, issues, vcs etc) for project and configures common plugins. The main intention is to remove boilerplate and simplify project configuration.
Features:
- Supports plugins:
maven-publish
configure published pom sections (including license section)plugin-publish
configure gradle plugin links
- Conventional github links may be used directly to configure other plugins manually through
github
object (e.g.github.site
) - In multi-module project always configures defaults from the root project
You can use it with java-lib plugin to remove more configuration boilerplate for java or groovy library or gradle plugin.
Summary
- Configuration closures:
github
Setup
buildscript {
repositories {
gradlePluginPortal()
}
dependencies {
classpath 'ru.vyarus:gradle-github-info-plugin:2.0.0'
}
}
apply plugin: 'ru.vyarus.github-info'
OR
plugins {
id 'ru.vyarus.github-info' version '2.0.0'
}
Compatibility
Plugin compiled for java 8, compatible with java 17
Gradle | Version |
---|---|
7 | 2.0.0 |
5.1 | 1.5.0 |
Usage
Minimum required configuration:
github {
user 'test'
license 'MIT'
}
User may be used to define either user or organization (links will be correct for both). github.repository
will be set to project name by default (root project name in case of multi-module).
Other license properties may be also required (see below).
All other properties are generated by conventions. You can override any property.
If some required properties are not set validation error will be thrown to prevent incorrect usage.
Using in configurations
All properties may be used in other configurations
github {
user 'test'
license 'MIT'
}
somePlugin {
websiteUrl = github.site
vcsUrl = github.vcsUrl
importantFileUrl = github.rawFileUrl('IFile.txt')
}
Available properties
Property | Description | Default value |
---|---|---|
user | Github user or organization name | |
repository | Github repository name | $rootProject.name |
branch | Branch name for file links | HEAD (to support both legacy 'master' and new 'main') |
license | License short name (e.g. 'MIT') | |
licenseName | License full name (e.g. 'The MIT License') | may be set by convention (see license section) |
licenseUrl | Url to license file | may be set by convention (see license section) |
repositoryUrl | Github repository url | https://github.com/$user/$repository |
issues | Url to github issues | https://github.com/$user/$repository/issues |
site | Project website | $repositoryUrl |
vcsUrl | Version control url | https://github.com/$user/${repository} |
scmConnection | SCM connection url | scm:git:git://github.com/$user/${repository} |
changelogFile | Path to changelog file, relative to project root | CHANGELOG.md, CHANGELOG.txt or CHANGELOG if file found in project root |
License
Plugin contains hardcoded info for most common licenses:
License ID | License name |
---|---|
Apache | Apache License 2.0 |
GPLv2 | GNU General Public License 2.0 |
GPLv3 | GNU General Public License 3.0 |
AGPL | GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 |
LGPLv2.1 | The GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 |
LGPLv3 | The GNU Lesser General Public License 3.0 |
MIT | The MIT License |
Artistic | Artistic License 2.0 |
EPL | Eclipse Public License 1.0 |
BSD 3-clause | The BSD 3-Clause License |
MPL | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
If license
property value is one of license id above then licenseName
will be set. Otherwise, licenseName
must be specified manually.
licenseUrl
default:
- Looks if
LICENSE
orLICENSE.txt
file contained in project root, then url will behttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/$user/$repository/HEAD/LICENSE
(or with txt extension accordingly) - If license file not found in project, but
license
matches known license id (table above) then url will be set as link toopensource.org
(see links above) - If neither license file found nor license id recognized then url must be set manually
Utility method
github.rawFileUrl(file, branch)
method may be used in build script to generate direct (raw) urls to files on github repository.
For example,
github.rawFileUrl('folder/file.txt')
Will generate the following url:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/$user/$repository/HEAD/folder/file.txt
Branch parameter is optional ('HEAD' by default in order to support both old 'master' and new 'main' default branch names)
Plugins defaults
Plugin recognize some common plugins and apply default values to them (but not overrides user configuration!)
maven-publish
If maven-publish plugin available, then for all defined publications pom will be extended with:
<url>${github.site}</url>
<scm>
<url>${github.vcsUrl}</url>
<connection>${github.scmConnection}</connection>
<developerConnection>${github.scmConnection}</developerConnection>
</scm>
<licenses>
<license>
<name>${github.licenseName}</name>
<url>%{github.licenseUrl}</url>
<distribution>repo</distribution>
</license>
</licenses>
<issueManagement>
<system>GitHub</system>
<url>${github.issues}</url>
</issueManagement>
plugin-publish
If publish-plugin plugin available, then following defaults will be applied for gradle 7.6 and above:
gradlePlugin {
website = github.site
vcsUrl = github.vcsUrl
}
For older gradle versions pluginBundle
configured:
pluginBundle {
website = github.site
vcsUrl = github.vcsUrl
}
So you can avoid these properties in gradlePlugin
configuration in your build file. If you manually specify any of these values it will not be overridden.
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