Package org.gradle.api.component

Interface SoftwareComponentFactory

@Incubating
public interface SoftwareComponentFactory

A software component factory is responsible for providing to plugins a way to create software components. Currently the software factory only allows the creation of adhoc software components which can be used for publishing simple components. This is the case whenever there's no component model to be used and that the plugin can solely rely on outgoing variants to publish variants.

Since:

5.3

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AdhocComponentWithVariants	adhoc(String name)	Creates an adhoc software component, which can be used by plugins to build custom component types.

Method Detail

adhoc

AdhocComponentWithVariants adhoc(String name)

Creates an adhoc software component, which can be used by plugins to build custom component types.

Parameters:

name - the name of the component

Returns:

the created component, which must be added to the components container later

Since:

5.3