How to allow / workaround nested composite Gradle builds

Question

I'm running into the same issue as reported here:

I have a Java project A which depends on project B (module), and project B dependes on project C (another module). For project A I would like to setup "includeBuild ../projectB" and for project B I would like too setup "includeBuild ../projectC" so that I could develop everything in Eclipse + Buildship 2.0 without the need to run Gradle for every small change in each of the projecta A, B and C.

But if I setup this I get: "Included build '%s' cannot have included builds.".

Expected Behavior

Recursive "includeBuild" would recursively include dependent projects.

Current Behavior

I get "Included build '%s' cannot have included builds.".

Your Environment

Gradle 3.5, Buildship 2.0, Eclipse 3.6

How can I resolve / work around this issue? In my instance, I have utility project that includes email functionality (using JavaMail). The email functionality is needed in the data project and a UI project. The UI project also depends on the data project.

Answer 1

Have you considered

1. Ensuring that none of the individual builds are composite builds
2. Having an "uber" build which is a composite of everything

Note that the settings.gradle is itself a groovy script, so you could create a dynamic composite, eg all sub-folders with a build.gradle under a parent.

uber/settings.gradle

new File("c:/someFolder").listFiles().each { File f ->
    if (f.directory && new File(f, 'build.gradle').exists()) {
        includeBuild f
    }
}

Eg

c:/someFolder/project1/build.gradle
c:/someFolder/project1/src/main/java/**/*.java
c:/someFolder/project2/build.gradle
c:/someFolder/project2/src/main/java/**/*.java
c:/uber/settings.gradle (as above)