Gradle - Canonical version from gradle.properties

[monowai]

Similar to issue 775

I manage versions using gradle.properties. I've found this to be the safest way of registering a version for plugins and classpath dependencies.

When I have the version number set directly in build.gradle, dependencies are correctly detected as out of date.

When set as a variable, Dependabot seems unable to resolve the version of the library I'm using and simply says
Looks like these dependencies are no longer a dependency, so this is no longer needed.

For example:
Resilience4J, I have
gradle.properties -> resilience4jVersion=1.1.0
build.gradle -> io.github.resilience4j:resilience4j-spring-boot2:$resilience4jVersion

[fnobilia]

Any updates on this issue? =)

[missedone]

looks like duplicates with #1618

[monowai]

Not quite duplicates but #1618 does explain how to obtain the same result through a bit of reconfiguration and many thanks for pointing that out.

Moving the library properties from gradle.properties and into build.gradle in the root project resolves this issue.
for example:

buildscript {
    ext{
        springBootVersion='2.3.8.RELEASE'
        ...

So while setting the propeties in gradle.properties works fine for Gradle, it does not work for dependabot which expects them to be in build.gradle

My working config for referece

[cricketsamya]

Try this out.
https://cricketsamya.github.io/posts/dependabot-with-gradle/