Consolidate Gradle Plugin

Consolidate subprojects in a single project when creating an artifact while still keeping third party dependencies separate.

Publish libraries for projects sharing a codebase without having to publish intermediate shared libraries.

None of the mess of assembly/shading.

History

This tool grew out of usage from the jib project as a way to share business logic between maven and gradle libraries without having to publish our shared libraries.

Usage

Prepare environment

1. Clone the project
2. Install the plugin locally

   $ ./gradlew publish
   

3. Add mavenLocal() as a plugin source in your settings.gradle

   pluginManagement {
     repositories {
       mavenLocal()
       gradlePluginPortal()
     }
   }
   

Configure your project

1. Add the plugin

   plugins {
     id 'com.loosebazooka.consolidate' version '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
    ...
   

2. To include a subproject use consolidate instead of implementation

   dependencies {
     consolidate project(':my-lib')
     // implementation project(':my-lib')
     ...
   }
   

IDE support

1. You should be able to import your project into your IDE (eclipse, intellij) as before