Creating own project templates about gradle-templates

[townsfolk]

Hmm. Assuming you have the import statement, in your build script, it should work.

You can try using the full classname:
String projectName = templates.TemplatesPlugin.prompt('Project Name:')

[lives78]

I get the same error

I am new to groovy programming. I have placed the grade-templates-1.3.jar under <gradle_installation>/lib and also under <gradle_installation>/lib/plugins .
I am using gradle 1.4

gradle createMyProject
:createMyProject FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Build file '/Users//Desktop/sample_projects/try_out_gradle_templates/build.gradle' line: 13

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':createMyProject'.

  Could not find property 'templates' on task ':createMyProject'.

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 12.643 secs

[lives78]

In order to import classes within build script is there any other setting to be done ?

This might be a basic question - appreciate your help in getting this resolved.

[townsfolk]

That method of installation doesn't work with Gradle 1+. Actually, could you please tell me where you learned of that method? It's been removed from the project home page, and the old wiki location points to the new project home page. Would like to figure out if I missed some documentation somewhere. :)

You need to use the "apply from" method described on the project home page: https://github.com/townsfolk/gradle-templates

Basically, your build.gradle file should look something like this:

apply from: 'http://www.tellurianring.com/projects/gradle-plugins/gradle-templates/apply.groovy'

import templates.*
task 'createMyProject' << {
    String projectName = TemplatesPlugin.prompt('Project Name:')
    ProjectTemplate.fromRoot(projectName) {
        'src/com/example' {}
        'build.gradle' '''
        apply plugin: 'java'
        sourceSets {
            main {
                java {
                    srcDir 'src'
                }
            }
        }
        '''
    }
}

[lives78]

I have cut and pasted the same build.gradle and get the error again.

I tried the below settings in init.gradle
gradle.beforeProject { prj ->
prj.apply from: 'http://www.tellurianring.com/projects/gradle-plugins/gradle-templates/apply.groovy'
}
but get the same error.

[lives78]

Reg the method of installation , I just tried few other means of installing the plugins from different forums. Your documentation is clear.

[townsfolk]

Custom project structures won't work with the global install. You might be able to add createMyProject task within the init.gradle script, not sure if that'll work.

prj.task "createMyProject" << { .... }

I am seeing the same error you are now. Not sure what's broken, but I'll get back to you.

Thanks!

[lives78]

Thanks a lot as this would be very useful in our project.

[townsfolk]

Looks like the apply script no longer adds the classes to your build script. I can't find another workaround besides putting the contents of the apply script directly into your build script.

If you want your 'createMyProject' task, and all the other templates, replace the 'apply from' line with the following:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        ivy {
            name = 'gradle_templates'
            artifactPattern 'http://tellurianring.com/projects/gradle-plugins/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]'
            ivyPattern 'http://tellurianring.com/projects/gradle-plugins/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]'
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'gradle-templates:gradle-templates:1.3'
    }
}
// Check to make sure templates.TemplatesPlugin isn't already added.
if (!project.plugins.findPlugin(templates.TemplatesPlugin)) {
    project.apply(plugin: templates.TemplatesPlugin)
}

If you don't want the other templates, you can remove the final if check:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        ivy {
            name = 'gradle_templates'
            artifactPattern 'http://tellurianring.com/projects/gradle-plugins/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]'
            ivyPattern 'http://tellurianring.com/projects/gradle-plugins/[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]'
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'gradle-templates:gradle-templates:1.3'
    }
}

Either of these will work for creating your own tasks, you only need the if check if you want to use the base templates as well.

[lives78]

Thanks. I will try this.

[townsfolk]

I'm going assume this issue is closed, please reopen if you still experience issues.

[lives78]

Thanks. Its working. This was really useful.
The issue can be closed.