When using Intellij, I can't use the build directory as an include directory, so my files can't import the generated protos. What I really want is to generate the Proto.java files and have them automatically copied into my src tree.

Setting outputJava doesn't seem to do anything. I am doing it like this:

protobuf { outputJava = '$sourceDir' }

But it still outputs the generated files to build/generated/java.

... a property switch.

Reason: for testing the google protocol buffers 3.0.0 alpha the automatic dependency creation feature fails as the protoc version differs from the name of the runtime library. In order to allow the manual creation of the proper dependency, it was necessary for me to be able to deactivate the automatic creation.

Maybe this is useful for someone else as well ...

All the best, l00tr

...roperties.

Resolved issue with default project properties overwriting custom project properties by moving addCompileProtoTask and addSourceJarTask calls into project.afterEvaluate.

Bumped version number to 0.3.1.

Added project property for outputting generated files relative to build directory or relative to project root directory.

Hello,

I can not get the src option working. The documentation states: " Source directory for your .proto files. The value is relative to the project root."

however the plugin looks into src/main.

My build.gradle file includes the following

protobuf { version = '2.5.0' src = 'proto'
}

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "protoc": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1048) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:620) at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:450)

Resolved issue with not being able to set custom project properties by moving addCompileProtoTask and addSourceJarTask calls into project.afterEvaluate.

Added a new project property "outputToProjectDir" for outputting generated files relative to project root directory instead of relative to build directory.

Bumped version number to 0.4.0 since it is a patch for a bug and adds a new configuration option.

The usage example in Readme has an extra curly brace on line 4, it causes syntax error.

buildscript {
    repositories {
            mavenCentral()
        }
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.andrewkroh.gradle:gradle-protobuf-plugin:0.2.0'
    } 
}

should be

buildscript {
    repositories {
            mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.andrewkroh.gradle:gradle-protobuf-plugin:0.2.0'
    } 
}

This project seems to have the project found here: https://github.com/aantono/gradle-plugin-protobuf/issues/12

Anyone know how to incorporate this into an android project?

The plugin should add a new sourceSet for the generated code so that it is automatically incorporated into your IDE. I will also address that in the next release.

As a workaround you can add a sourceSet yourself. This will get the source into your IDE, but it does not wire up a dependency on the compileProto task.

sourceSets {
  generated {
    java.srcDirs += "$buildDir/$protobuf.outputJava"
  }
}