Canteen Gradle Plugin

[rmichela]

Write a Canteen build plugin for Gradle that mirrors the Maven plugin.

[marcoferrer]

I’m working on sorting out some time to tackle an initial implementation of this. I do have a Gradle script in this project to manually add support until a proper plugin is published. I don’t think the actual plugin should follow what’s done in this script, but it could potentially hold others over in the mean time.

https://github.com/marcoferrer/kroto-plus/pull/87/files

[rmichela]

Thanks for the pointer! I know nothing about writing Gradle plugins, so this is a great seed. Do you think it's worth moving the jar packaging logic out of the Maven plugin into a shared lib both Maven and Gradle can use?

[marcoferrer]

That was the first thing that came to mind. The packaging logic should definitely be shared between the two plugins. The actual Gradle plugin is pretty simple and straight forward. I don’t think it would take me long to put together. One thing to consider is behavior. Should the plugin implicitly lookup the jar artifact configuration or should it be a configurable value? Plenty of Gradle project have multiple publishable artifacts. For instance I’m my case I wanted to bundle the spring bootJar and not the default. Specifically because I need spring to do some of its unpacking magic at startup.