Gradle Maven Publish Plugin

External

• https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_maven.html

Internal

• Gradle Concepts
• Gradle Artifact Publishing Concepts

Plugin Mechanics

"maven-publish" is an newer alternative to publishing with Maven Plugin, which uses the a task of type "Upload" task. It generates Maven metadata and pushes the artifacts and the metadata to a Maven repository.

apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

"publishing" Extension

The plugin creates a "publishing" extension of type PublishingExtension. This extension provides a container of named publications and a container of named repositories.

publishing {
  publications {
    myPublicationName(MavenPublication) {
      // Configure the publication here
    }
  }
}

repositories {
    maven {
        url "${url}"
        authentication {
            basic(BasicAuthentication)
        }
    }
}

Publications are published to repositories via tasks and the configuration of the publication object determines exactly what is published.

The plugin does not have effect if no MavenPublication is added to the publications container. A publication determines which artifacts are actually published as well as the details included in the associated POM file. A publication can be configured by adding components, customizing artifacts, and by modifying the generated POM file directly.

Publishing to a Maven Repository

Apply the Plugin

apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

Execute

gradle publish