Example/documentation for adding database driver in Gradle

[sergeykad]

I found the example for configuring DB driver dependency for Maven, but is there a similar explanation for Gradle?

I suppose I can add it to the buildscript block, but I think this approach is discouraged in the last Gradle versions. Maybe there is a separate configuration available that allows to specify it like the following?

dependencies {
        dependencyCheck 'org.postgresql:postgresql:42.7.1'
}

The main issue with using buildscript block AFAIK is that dependencies can leak into the project being built or other plugins.

[jeremylong]

At the moment - the buildScript is the only option. We need to implement a new configuration for "plugins" and dependencies for dependency-check.

For future implementation ideas:

• define/extend configuration: https://github.com/shwenzhang/AndResGuard/blob/e4df245d82f27d9a2d0dd108260a3510cbaba849/AndResGuard-gradle-plugin/src/main/groovy/com/tencent/gradle/ExecutorExtension.groovy#L48
• add the configuration to the tasks classpath: https://github.com/jk1/Gradle-License-Report/blob/232fc7e6152f8d064a5e4757d4f3693a6ad808e3/src/main/groovy/com/github/jk1/license/task/CacheableReportTask.groovy#L27

[ssi-ips]

With the increasing problems of the NVD API in the last weeks I think more people will start to adopt the central db approach to decouple the the analyze and update steps and run into the same problem.

It would be nice to give this some priority as adding dependencies to the buildScript block has some major drawbacks.