Make Source Dirs Gradle Plugin

1. Creates source directory structure as per the applied plugins (java, groovy, kotlin, scala, war) and custom sourceSet dirs
2. Automatically generate / updates settings.gradle file to include child projects based on convention

Usage

Apply the plugin to the project

plugins {
  id "com.kdabir.mksrc" version "1.1.1"
}

The plugin adds makeSourceDirs to the project. Run the following command

$ gradle makeSourceDirs 

Based on the plugins applied to project (and configured sourceSets), the source dirs will be created

$ tree src
src
├── main
│   ├── java
│   └── resources
└── test
    ├── java
    └── resources

For multi-project builds

If the top level project doesn't need source dirs, but the subprojects do, then use apply false in plugins block and apply the plugin to all subprojects. Adding the following snippet in the top level project's build.gradle should work :

plugins {
  id "com.kdabir.mksrc" version "1.1.1" apply false
}

subprojects {
  apply plugin: 'com.kdabir.mksrc'
}

Generating settings.gradle File Automatically

In a multi-module project, it is often pain to keep settings.gradle in sync with the nested modules/projects structure (as we need to include sub-projects explicitly). Also, since all files are named build.gradle, it is hard to locate the right build file for the sub-project (in IDEs). This plugin solves both the problems by using simple convention and then generating/syncing settings.gradle file on-demand.

Instead of naming the build files for all sub-projects as build.gradle, we keep a <module-name>.gradle within the <module-name>/ dir. The plugin adds generateSettingsFile task to the project. This task updates settings.gradle to include all sub projects' <module-name>/<module-name>.gradle into the build.

Usage:

$ gradle generateSettingsFile 

do commit your existing settings.gradle to version control before calling this task.