Quarkus: [devtools] Add Gradle Kotlin DSL as another build tool option when generating a new Quarkus projects

[hantsy]

Add Gradle Kotlin DSL as another build tool option, or add a using Kotlin DSL checkbox when Gradle is selected.

[ia3andy]

@maxandersen @geoand any thoughts?

[geoand]

I think we need to mature the Gradle support first. This would be a nice addition after that

[ia3andy]

@geoand thanks, I move the issue to Quarkus main repo then.

[ia3andy]

@maxandersen I think this should wait for the refactor https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/8178 (and maybe done just after it?)

[rajatpundir]

+1

[ia3andy]

@maxandersen Would it be activated when you select Kotlin and Gradle together? Maybe you could want it without Kotlin in the code? Or would it be a plain "Gradle Kotlin" Built Tool?

The problem with the latest would be to have 2 Gradle vs 1 Maven options no?

[rajatpundir]

@maxandersen Would it be activated when you select Kotlin and Gradle together? Maybe you could want it without Kotlin in the code? Or would it be a plain "Gradle Kotlin" Built Tool?

The problem with the latest would be to have 2 Gradle vs 1 Maven options no?

I think kotlin DSL is more elegant with a Gradle Kotlin project. That's also what Spring initializr generates by default for a gradle kotlin project, and would be good to have similar behaviour for generating new quarkus projects.

[emmanuelbernard]

Let's close this one as it's a duplicate of #5776

[ia3andy]

@emmanuelbernard I am re-opening this one, there is a clear distinction between handling existing projects that use Gradle with Kotlin DSL (https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/5776) and generating new Quarkus project using Gradle with Kotlin DSL as a buildtool option (this one).

[ia3andy]

This option will be easy to implement when https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/pull/10372 gets merged

[ia3andy]

We would just need create a new Gradle buildtool Codestart strongly inspired by the Gradle one: https://github.com/ia3andy/quarkus/tree/codestarts-v0/devtools/platform-descriptor-json/src/main/resources/codestarts/base/buildtool/gradle