Gradle is not resolving DependencyHandler methods for test sets

[AlbRoehm]

Gradle Wrapper Version 7.1

I was trying to add a dependency to the test library module i defined like this:

testSets {
    createLibrary("testCommon")
    create("testIntegration"){
        imports("testCommon")
    }
    unitTest{
        imports("testCommon")
    }
}

According to the documentation i expected to be able to add dependency in the following syntax.

dependencies{
   ...
    testCommonImplementation("io.ktor:ktor-gson:$ktorVersion")
    testCommonImplementation("com.karumi.kotlinsnapshot:core:2.2.3")
}

Gradle was not able to resolve the function and add the dependencies correctly until i added the following function which solved it:

fun DependencyHandler.testCommonImplementation(dependencyNotation: Any): Dependency? =
    add("testCommonImplementation", dependencyNotation)

Could someone clarify if one is supposed to do it this way? Being not that well versed with gradle this gave me quite the headache

[knes1]

I believe that what you experienced is the limitation of Gradle's Kotlin DSL, at least according to the similar issue already reported here: #109

So, to answer your question, it seems like one is in fact supposed to it the way you described. Alternative would be:

dependencies{
   ...
    "testCommonImplementation"("io.ktor:ktor-gson:$ktorVersion")
    "testCommonImplementation"("com.karumi.kotlinsnapshot:core:2.2.3")
}

I like your extension function approach as another alternative to overcome the aforementioned limitation.

[AlbRoehm]

Thanks for the clarification and example! I stumbled upon the kotlin dsl on some other stuff too ...