Dependency management support for Gradle Kotlin scripts (.kts)

[sambsnyd]

What problem are you trying to solve?

Gradle supports Groovy and Kotlin as scripting languages for build files. We currently support editing Groovy-based build files. This should be extended to Kotiln.

Describe the solution you'd like

For each Gradle-groovy dependency management recipe there should be a Gradle-kotlin equivalent.

Additional context

Requires some enhancements to rewrite-kotlin and rewrite-gradle.

[wakingrufus]

I have an example use case here: currently, AddDependency, it adds dependencies without () around the string portion of the dependency. in groovy, either way is correct, but in kts, the () must be there.

[k3vonk]

This has been opened for over a year, has there been any updates to this?

[timtebeek]

@shanman190 Has done exploratory work in https://github.com/shanman190/rewrite-gradle-experimental ; it's definitely on the radar, but also a moving target now with efforts like https://blog.gradle.org/declarative-gradle-first-eap Trust me when I say we'd very much like to see this covered, and if it were easy we'd have done so already. :)