Install Plugin jar in Grails Project?

Question

I have a grails plugin project and want to make a jar which I then include into my grails project.

Here is the plugin project: https://github.com/ticketbis/grails-groobalize

I did:

grails package-plugin --binary

To get the file: grails-plugin-groobalize-0.1.12.jar.

In my grails project's BuildConfig.groovy I did:

dependencies {
  compile "com.ticketbis:groobalize:0.1.12"
}

When I run grails refresh-dependencies I get the following error:

Error |
There was an error loading the BuildConfig: Bad artifact coordinates :groobalize:0.1.12, expected format is <groupId>:<artifactId>[:<extension>[:<classifier>]]:<version> (Use --stacktrace to see the full trace)

How do I install the locale plugin jar into ma grails project correctly?

Answer 1

There are a few ways of doing this.

You can use the release plugin: https://grails.org/plugin/release

• Add this plugin to your grails plugin and then do a publish. The plugin will then be added to your local maven repo.
• The you could add the dependency in your main grails project as you have already done.

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Other way around is to checkout the plugin project, include the location in your main grails project like below.

BuildConfig.groovy

grails.plugin.location.'your-plugin' = "<location-your-plugin>"

This line will compile your plugin every time you compile your main grails project.

There may be other ways too.