Programmatically determine Gradle version from within Gradle plugin

Question

How can I retrieve the version of Gradle itself programmatically from within a Gradle plugin?

Cirone

Answer 1

Just found out one can get at it using either

• getProject().getGradle().getGradleVersion()
  Javadoc and DSL reference for the Gradle core type which contains the version. Accordinng to the javadoc getVersion will never return null.

or

• Plugin.class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion()
  This is plain groovy/java class-based and depends on the classloader and provided Manifest.

Cirone

Answer 2

This question appeared as the first result when I Googled for it.

There's a class - GradleVersion that'll do the job as well. So

GradleVersion.current()

will return the same as

getProject().getGradle().getGradleVersion()

EDIT

GradleVersion.current() returns a GradleVersion that after toString() becomes something like Gradle 8.9. GradleVersion.current().getVersion() returns just the number, e.g. 7.6.3.

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