This gradle plugin adds a task to your project that will create a graph of how your gradle modules depend on each other.
For example, this is the module graph of the Android project GameFrame:
Apply the gradle plugin on your root build.gradle
file:
plugins {
id 'com.savvasdalkitsis.module-dependency-graph' version '<latest_version>'
}
legacy syntax:
buildscript {
repositories {
maven { url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/" }
}
dependencies {
classpath "com.savvasdalkitsis:module-dependency-graph:<latest_version>"
}
}
apply plugin: "com.savvasdalkitsis.module-dependency-graph"
From the command line, simply run:
./gradlew graphModules
This will create a png of the dependency graph of your modules and open the image
You can specify a comma separated list of modules to include in the output. If this is specified the graph will contain only these modules and their dependants and dependencies. This can be helpful when trying to clean up a really complicated dependency tree and you need to focus on only a part of it.
./gradlew graphModules -PgraphFilter=core,presentation:api,network
You can specify where the dot file and output file get created by specifying the following properties:
./gradlew graphModules -PdotFilePath={ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_DOT_FILE} -PgraphOutputFilePath={ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_OUTPUT_FILE}
or in the gradle.properties
file:
dotFilePath={ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_DOT_FILE}
graphOutputFilePath={ABSOLUTE_PATH_TO_OUTPUT_FILE}
Apart from png
, which is the default format, this plugin has support for other formats, like svg
and any
other format that graphviz
supports (can be found here):
./gradlew graphModules -PgraphOutputFormat=svg
or in the gradle.properties
file:
graphOutputFormat=svg
By default, the generated graph will be opened using the system's default app for handling the specified format. If you don't want this to happen, you can specify the following parameter:
./gradlew graphModules -PautoOpenGraph=false
or in the gradle.properties
file:
autoOpenGraph=false
You must have graphviz installed on your system in order to use this plugin. For more information on how to install it visit http://www.graphviz.org/
The plugin currently only works on macOS and Linux since it is in the very early stages (as reflected by its version number). Multi-platform support will be coming soon along with many customization options.
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