Recursive Wrapper Gradle Plugin

When using Gradle composite builds, each included build is an independent project and needs its own Gradle wrapper. Keeping these in sync and up to date can be tedious.

What if it was possible to run ./gradlew :wrapper --gradle-version=8.5 in the root project and update the wrappers in all included projects at the same time?

Simply apply the following plugin in the root project build.gradle.kts:

plugins {
    id("io.github.davidburstrom.recursive-wrapper") version "0.1.0-beta-3"
}

and the plugin will deal with the rest when the :wrapper task is invoked, propagating relevant values, and even boostrapping the wrapper files if necessary.

For a Groovy build.gradle the equivalent is:

plugins {
    id 'io.github.davidburstrom.recursive-wrapper' version '0.1.0-beta-3'
}

All standard :wrapper arguments are supported, e.g. --gradle-distribution-sha256-sum, etc.

In case the root project is using Gradle dependency verification, it is either necessary to add the plugin verification information in the included builds, or to execute the wrapper task with --dependency-verification=lenient.

The plugin has been tested on all Gradle versions from 6.0.1 to 8.11.1.

Releases

• 0.1.0-beta-3
  • Support temporarily disabling dependency verification in included builds.
• 0.1.0-beta-2
  • Support bootstrapping Gradle Wrapper files in included builds if they are missing.
• 0.1.0-beta-1
  • The initial release.

License

Copyright 2023-2024 David Burström.

Acknowledgements

• Nelson Osacky - for invaluable Gradle insights
• Remco Mokveld - for bringing the problem to my attention in the first place