In gradle, how to use a variable for a plugin version?

Question

One of my build scripts imports that nebula plugin:

plugins {
  id \'nebula.ospackage\' version \'3.5.0\'
}

I\'ve been moving all of my ver

Answer 1

This is an old post, but the bug is still open, and I found this post looking for workarounds.

It seems you were aware of this already, and actually have BoygeniusDexter's answer, but I think this may help others finding this post like I did. The following workaround is based on the Gradle docs and solved the problem for me:

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '2.0.4.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:${springBootVersion}")
    }
}

plugins {
    id 'java'
    // and other plugins
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.6.RELEASE'
}
// but the one with the variable version is applied the old way:
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'

// We can use the variable in dependencies, too:
dependencies {
    compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-web', version: springBootVersion
    // ...
}