Category Archives: Gradle

Gradle Binary to Package with the Wrapper

  1. Download the gradle binary from the following address:

    https://services.gradle.org/distributions/

    For example gradle-7.4-all.zip.

  2. Place the downloaded gradle binary to the gradle/wrapper directory of the gradle project.

  3. Update the wrapper configuration (i.e. gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties) like the following:

    If you've downloaded gradle-7.4-all.zip binary from step 1.

    distributionBase=PROJECT
    distributionPath=wrapper/dists
    distributionUrl=gradle-7.4-all.zip
    zipStoreBase=PROJECT
    zipStorePath=wrapper/dists

Downloading Dependencies with Gradle Script

  1. Create settings.gradle file with the following content:

    rootProject.name = 'download-dependecies'
  2. Create build.gradle file with the following content:

    plugins {
        id 'application'
    }
    
    group 'xyz.ronella.gradle'
    version '1.0.0'
    
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    
    dependencies {
        //Add all the target dependencies here
        implementation 'org.apache.poi:poi:3.5-FINAL'
    }
    
    task download(group: 'resolver') {
        doFirst {
            ant.delete(dir: 'libs')
            ant.mkdir(dir: 'libs')
        }
        doLast {
            copy {
                from sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath
                into 'libs/'
            }
            def outputFile = "${project.buildDir}\\${project.name}-${version}.zip"
            ant.zip(basedir: "${file('libs')}", destfile: "${outputFile}", excludes: '*.class')
            println "Output: ${outputFile}"
            ant.delete(dir: 'libs')
        }
    }
  3. Run the following gradle command:

    gradle download

    If you are using the gradle wrapper, use the following command:

    gradlew download

Using Embedded Derby in Java 9 with Gradle

  1. Add the following dependencies to your build.gradle file:
    compile group: 'org.apache.derby', name: 'derby', version: '10.15.1.3'
    compile group: 'org.apache.derby', name: 'derbyshared', version: '10.15.1.3'
  2. Add the following entries to your module-info.java file:
    requires org.apache.derby.engine;
    requires org.apache.derby.commons;
    requires java.sql;
    
  3. In your Java class, you can create a connection like the following:
    final String DATABASE_NAME = "sample_table";
    String connectionURL = String.format("jdbc:derby:%s;create=true", DATABASE_NAME);
    connection = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionURL);
    
  4. Do your needed database operations with the connection (e.g. create table, execute a query, or call a stored procedure.).
  5. When your done using the connection, close the connection and shutdown the Derby engine like the following:
    connection.close();
    
    boolean gotSQLExc = false;
    try {
        //shutdown all databases and the Derby engine
        DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:derby:;shutdown=true");
    } catch (SQLException se)  {
        if ( se.getSQLState().equals("XJ015") ) {
            gotSQLExc = true;
        }
    }
    if (!gotSQLExc) {
        System.out.println("Database did not shut down normally");
    }

    A clean shutdown always throws SQL exception XJ015, which can be ignored.

Publishing to Maven Central with Gradle

Pre-requisites

  1. Create an account to sonatype.
  2. Request for a group id from sonatype by using Jira to create an issue.
  3. Generate PGP keys to be used for signing the binaries (e.g. jar file). For windows, you can follow the procedure here.
  4. Wait for the completion of the issue you've created from item 2.

Gradle Configuration

  1. Update your gradle.properties to include the following properties:
    nexusUsername=<SONATYPE_USERNAME>
    nexusPassword=<SONATYPE_PASSWORD>
    
    signing.keyId=<PGP_PUBLIC_KEY_ID>
    signing.password=<PGP_PASS_PHRASE>
    signing.secretKeyRingFile=<PGP_EXPORTED_PRIVATE_KEY>
    
  2. In your build.gradle file,  add the Gradle Sonatype Nexus Plugin like the following:
    plugins {
       id "java"
       id "com.bmuschko.nexus" version "2.3.1" // Gradle Sonatype Nexus Plugin
    }
  3. Add the following plugin configurations:
    modifyPom {
        project {
            name '<PROJECT_NAME>'
            description '<PROJECT_DESCRIPTION>'
            url '<PROJECT_WEBSITE>'
            inceptionYear '<PROJECT_INCEPTION_YEAR>'
    
            scm {
                url '<PROJECT_SCM_ADDRESS>'
                connection '<PROJECT_SCM_ADDRESS>'
                developerConnection '<PROJECT_SCM_ADDRESS>'
            }
    
            licenses {
                license {
                    name '<PROJECT_LICENSE_NAME>'
                    url '<PROJECT_LICENSE_ADDRESS>'
                    distribution 'repo'
                }
            }
    
            developers {
                developer {
                    id '<DEVELOPER_ID>'
                    name '<DEVELOPER_NAME>'
                    email '<DEVELOPER_EMAIL>'
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
    extraArchive {
        sources = true
        tests = true
        javadoc = true
    }
    
    nexus {
        sign = true
        repositoryUrl = '<SONATYPE_RELEASE_REPOSITORY>'
        snapshotRepositoryUrl = '<SONATYPE_SNAPSHOT_REPOSITORY>'
    }
  4. Add the Gradle Nexus Staging plugin like the following:
    plugins {
        id 'java'
        id "com.bmuschko.nexus" version "2.3.1" // Gradle Sonatype Nexux Plugin
        id "io.codearte.nexus-staging" version "0.21.1" // Gradle Nexus Staging Plugin
    }
  5. After adding the plugin save the build.gradle file.
  6. Get the staging profile ID by running the following command:
    gradlew getStagingProfile
  7. Add the following plugin configuration:
    nexusStaging {
        stagingProfileId = "<STAGING_PROFILE_ID>"
    }
  8. Save the build.gradle file again.

Uploading to Sonatype Repository

Run the following command:

gradlew uploadArchives

Publishing to Maven Central

Run the following command:

gradlew closeAndReleaseRepository

Errors in Publishing

If there are any errors after running the preceding command

  1. Sign in to the following address using your sonatype credentials: https://oss.sonatype.org/
  2. Click the Staging Repositories menu and investigate the error from there.
  3. Once the errors were identified and corrected locally, upload it again to sonatype repository before publishing it again.

Do this error correction process until all the errors were corrected.

Successful Publishing Validation

After around 10 minutes, navigate to your registered group id from sonatype, starting from the following address:

https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/

After around 2 hours, your artifact id may be searchable in maven central from the following address:

https://search.maven.org/

 

Configuring User Level Proxy for Gradle

  1. Create gradle.properties files in the following directory if not yet existing:
     <USER_HOME>/.gradle
  2. Add the following entries for http proxy configuration in the gradle.properties file:
    systemProp.http.proxyHost=<PROXY_HOST>
    systemProp.http.proxyPort=<PROXY_PORT>
    systemProp.http.proxyUser=<PROXY_USERNAME>
    systemProp.http.proxyPassword=<PROXY_PASSWORD>
    systemProp.http.nonProxyHosts=<NON_PROXY_HOSTS>

    Note: <NON_PROXY_HOSTS> is delimited by pipe symbol (e.g. localhost|*.test.net)

    Note: If https proxy configuration is needed use the same entries except that all http will must be replaced with https (e.g. systemProp.https.proxyHost).