Hello, probably a noob question. But how can I in a gradle plugin using Kotlin DSL define the configuration closure? I get the following error. I also can't do the usual

project.dependencies {
    implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:3.3.4")
}

I must write

project.dependencies.apply {
            this.add("compileOnly", "jakarta.servlet:jakarta.servlet-api")
        }

Can you provide more details on what you mean by "in a gradle plugin using Kotlin DSL"? Is this a precompiled script plugin? A plugin written in Kotlin where you have a dependency on the Kotlin DSL (e.g. through using the

kotlin-dsl

plugin)? In the latter case, you have to

import

the Kotlin DSL extensions.

It's a plugin writen in kotlin, and I don't have a dependency to Kotlin DSL currently.

once you've added a dependency on

gradleKotlinDSl()

make sure to add the import

import org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.*

Despite adding the kotlin dsl plugin as a dependency to my project, I still can't access the extensions defined on DependencyHandler

gradleKotlinDsl()

is not a dependency on the

kotlin-dsl

plugin. It is a dependency to on the Kotlin DSL. The

kotlin-dsl

plugin also adds this dependency to your project and additionally does some other things like configuring the assignment Kotlin compiler plugin which allows you to set `Property`s using

=

or the

sam-with-receiver

Kotlin compiler plugin.

I still can't access the extensions defined on DependencyHandler

implementation(...)

is not a fixed extension on DependencyHandler. In a Kotlin DSL build script where you applied some plugin in the

plugins { ... }

block that adds a configuration called

implementation

you have a generated accessor extension function that lets you do

implementation("...")

on the dependency handler. In a normal Kotlin file, you don't have such accessors. So you have to have a variable of type

Configuration

or

Provider<Configuration>

, and then you can use that syntax if you imported

org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.invoke

.