How do you set the maven artifact ID of a gradle project?

Question

From the gradle maven-publish plugin\'s documentation, it\'s clear that you set the groupId and version of the project directly in build.gradle

Answer 1

If you have a multi-module project, and you want the artifacts' names to differ from the Directory (which is set in the settings.gradle), then I think a better approach is to have a jar block for each sub-project, and there you can write the baseName, which will be the artifact-id. Then, rather than re-writing the publishing/publications block for each sub-project, you write it only once in the main build.gradle this way:

for each sub-project build.gradle:

jar {
    baseName = 'new-artifact-name-A'  //A beacause you also have B, C modules... 
}

in the main build.gradle:

publishing {
    publications {
        mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
           artifactId jar.baseName
           from components.java
        }
    }
}