I'm slowly converting a bunch of files from groovy to kts. One thing that has a bunch of conflicting information about it seemingly is how to take values from gradle.properties and reference them in a kts file. For example... in our settings.gradle we have some maven repositories declared that require a username and password. When I convert to settings.gradle.kts I can't reference those variables directly anymore. Can anyone confirm what the right way to reference a prop in gradle.properties (either in the project or global)? Essentially now I have

awsRepoUrl=<https://1234567890.d.codeartifact.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/maven/my-repo/>
awsUsername=aws
awsPassword=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJh...

and

maven {
  url = uri(awsRepoUrl)
  credentials {
    username = awsUsername
    password = awsPassword
  }
}

This should work:

val awsUsername: String by settings

Didn't notice the small disclaimer about

by settings

I was trying

by project

with no luck. 🤦

it's of course also possible to

val awsUsername = property("awsUsername") as String

or

findProperty()

if it's optional

No, there is no

findProperty

for settings, only for project. (Unless this has changed)

ah https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/platforms/core-configuration/kotlin-dsl/src/main/kotlin/org/gradle/kotlin/dsl/SettingsExtensions.kt goes through an internal service to get properties on settings, hmm

There was some way to get it from settings even if delegation doesn't work because of the illegal characters, but I don't remember it right now. Should be somewhere on linen or the forums though 🙂

sorry to bring this up again. but is it possible to use this similar syntax to get properties from local.properties?

Cool. I'll just tell my team to throw this one prop into their global gradle.properties and call it a day 😅