How to use grails.plugin.location?

Question

I have a plugin project which I created as grails create-plugin myPlugin. I also created a 'normal' grails project as grails create-app myPluginDemo. I'm trying to install myPlugin plugin in myPluginDemo but don't understand how to use grails.plugin.location.

Where do I put grails.plugin.location inside BuildConfig.groovy? Inside plugins section? Inside repositories section?

What should I append to grails.plugin.location? Should it be grails.plugin.location.myPlugin? Or grails.plugin.location.grails-my-plugin? Something else?

Answer 1

grails.plugin.location is not a dependency resolution, so it goes outside grails.project.dependency.resolution.

It should be like below, if both myPluginDemo and myPlugin are in the same directory. Moreover, this will not install the plugin into the app, but the application will refer to the file system for the plugin which is convenient in development mode. In order to use the packaged plugin it has to be referred in plugins inside grails.project.dependency.resolution

grails.plugin.location.myPlugin = "../myPlugin"
grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
    repositories {

    }
    dependencies {

    }
    plugins {

    }
}