Relative project dependencies in Gradle?

Question

When specifying Gradle project dependencies, can I avoid using a full absolute project name and use a relative one instead? (i.e. in my example I don\'t want to explicitly speci

Answer 1

Although using relative paths might be a bad practice, sometimes you might just need it that way. Nevertheless, here is how you can get it to work.

You need to create settings.gradle file inside webapp-a

webapp-a/settings.gradle

include '..:domain-a'

Then in webapp-a/build.gradle

compile project(':..:domain-a')

(haven't tested it myself but it should work)

EDIT: replaced ../domain-a by ..:domain-a in both files