Basically project plugin and settings plugin work just the same.

then I'm trying to set it to false in my settings.gradle.kts or in my gradle.properties but neither seems to work

clearly I am missing something, just not sure what 🙂

so trying to figure out proper way to accomplish via a settings plugin

The problem you have is exactly the same you have in project plugins, if you want to change some configuration based on the property on your extension.

As long as you read all properties only at execution time, you do not have a problem.

The solution is also quite the same. Do not use a property, but have a function in your extension that the consumer of your plugin can call and that does the configuration change in its body.

I am applying this settings plugin directly in the plugins block of my settings.gradle

(sorry for being dense about this)

just trying to figure out how to properly modify what I have, but I'll give the contents here in a sec to show what I've currently got:

so in the project settings.gradle that I am applying my published plugin to: ... plugins { id("com.example.my-plugin") version "1.0" } myPluginSettings { failOnProjectRepos = false } my extension is : interface MyPluginExtension { val failOnProjectRepos: Property<Boolean> } and my plugin is: abstract class MyPlugin: Plugin<Settings> { override fun apply(settings: Settings) { val extension = settings.extensions.create("myPluginSettings", MyPluginExtension::class.java) extension.failOnProjectRepos.convention(true) settings.gradle.settingsEvaluated { configureSettings(settings, extension) } } private fun configureSettings(settings: Settings, extension: MyPluginExtension) { if (extension.failOnProjectRepos.get()) { settings.apply { settings.dependencyResolutionManagement.respositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS) } } } }

but if I use the command line it seems to be fine with building

But use whatever works for you 🙂

I guess what I'm not clear on is how I would dynamically do this without properties like you're suggesting

still pretty noob at this stuff

the extension block in the settings.gradle: myPluginSettings { failOnProjectRepos = true } this "failOnProjectRepos" is always considered a property, right? Because being able to configure this at the project settings is what I'm hoping to be able to do until we fix all our project-level repo configurations to be more centralized

It will then instead look like

myPluginSettings {
  failOnProjectRepos()
}

or

myPluginSettings {
  failOnProjectRepos(true)
}

for example

Just follow the simple 4 steps I gave you

thanks Vampire 🙂

well, I thought I was close, but it turns out I am not really much farther ahead

I've been able to successfully trigger a function in my extension class via the extension block in my consumer project

but I cannot seem to get the compiler to let me use the settings object I am passing in the extension constructor

I updated my extension to look like this: abstract class MyPluginExtension(settings: Settings) { fun test() { settings.apply etc } and the settings object is not properly resolving and letting me call any of it's APIs I updated the apply function in my plugin to look like this: abstract class MyPlugin: Plugin<Settings> { override fun apply(settings: Settings) { val extension = settings.extensions.create("myPluginSettings", MyPluginExtension::class.java, settings) etc...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ok making progress again 🙂 will let you know if I hit any more hangups

got it! thanks Vampire, you are awesome...learned a few things today!