How to apply shared dependencies in gradle kotlin dsl

Question

I'am trying to migrate my Gradle Groovy into Kotlin dsl but I got an error on applying shared dependencies, I'm using multi module project.

apply from ("../shared_dependencies.gradle.kts")

I got function invocation apply() expected, but what does that mean?

Answer 1

A simple Kotlin way of achieving the same result is creating DependencyHandler extension functions within buildSrc module, e.g.:

fun DependencyHandler.applySharedDeps() {
    add("implementation", "com.some.dependency:version")
}

If you don't like the add method, you can create a further extension function:

private fun DependencyHandler.implementation(dependency: Any) {
    add("implementation", dependency)
}
fun DependencyHandler.applySharedDeps() {
    implementation("com.some.dependency:version")
}

Then you can simply call applySharedDeps in any module config:

dependencies {
    applySharedDeps()
}

If you also want to apply other configs, and not just dependencies, you can similarly create extension functions for other classes, even the Project class.