Feature Request: support versions specified in separate file

[Arho Huttunen]

Thanks for making something possible in Gradle that has been available for Maven for a long time :)

One possible improvement could be to provide support for versions that are defined in another file, such as gradle/dependencies.gradle.

The separate file is only part of the problem. Some like to define the dependency itself like:

ext {
    versions = [
        springBootVersion: '2.2.2.RELEASE',
    ]
    libs = [
        springBootStarterWeb: "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:${versions.springBootVersion}",
}

In such case the dependency would be referenced in build.gradle with something like implementation libs.springBootStarterWeb.

Quickly browsing through the code it seems that it's just reading the build file as a string and doing string replacements. Do you think it would be feasible to try to implement separate file support with the current approach?

[Arho Huttunen]

Was able to solve this in the PR by providing the external file as an argument and then modifying the structure of the dependencies.gradle file a bit:

ext {
    springBootVersion = '2.2.2.RELEASE'

    libs = [
        springBootStarterWeb: "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:${springBootVersion}",
}

Now the string replacement is able to find the version and you should be able to have your dependencies in a separate file.

[Kevin Grüneberg]

Version 0.4.0 has been released including your PR. I will close this issue for now.

Again, thank you very much for contributing :)

I will also refactor the code a bit, so multiple build files are supported (basically just iterating the logic over multiple files).

[Kevin Grüneberg]

Released 0.4.1

• Improved the handling of external build files so
  • Multiple files can be inspected
  • Build.gradle(.kts) will still be inspected, when an external file is given
  • Documented the parameter in the README

[Arho Huttunen]

Awesome, thanks! Happy holidays!