I have a question about Dependency Resolution Management. I’ve developed a settings plugin that injects resolution repositories during the settings phase. I’m using PREFER_SETTINGS to prioritize repositories from the input, but this causes the build to ignore the resolution repositories configured in my

build.gradle

file. Here’s a simple example illustrating what the plugin accomplishes:

public class MyPluginSettings implements Plugin<Settings> {
    @Override
    public void apply(Settings settings) {
        settings.getDependencyResolutionManagement().getRepositoriesMode().set(RepositoriesMode.PREFER_SETTINGS);
        settings.getDependencyResolutionManagement().getRepositories().maven(mavenArtifactRepository -> {
            mavenArtifactRepository.setUrl(repoUrl);
        });
    }
}

Is there a way to use the repositories from the settings phase while still falling back to the ones specified in

build.gradle

? In other words, I’d like to use PREFER_SETTINGS with a fallback to PREFER_PROJECT. How can I achieve that? Thanks in advance.

You cannot. This would open a whole lot of repository hell in what should be merged with what in which order and so on. So for simplicity and clarity it was designed in a way that either the repositories from the settings are used, or the repositories from the project.