Running Gradle plugin directly from command line

Question

In Maven, if I wanted to analyze my project with sonar, I could do:

mvn sonar:sonar

using the 'short' plugin name and goal.

In Gradle, is there a similar way to run plugins, without declaring them in the build.gradle script?

Answer 1

This code works fine:

allprojects {
    buildscript {
        repositories {
            mavenCentral()
            maven {
                url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
            }
        }
        dependencies {
            classpath "org.sonarsource.scanner.gradle:sonarqube-gradle-plugin:2.5"
        }
    }

    apply plugin: 'java'
    apply plugin: 'jacoco'

    afterEvaluate { project ->
        project.apply plugin: 'org.sonarqube'
    }
}

gradle --init-script etc/quality.gradle sonarqube

Answer 2

There isn't currently, but there will be at some point. What you can do is to apply the plugin out-of-band (in some init.gradle).