Publication without afterEvaluate as specified in quickstart does not work.

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Expected and Results

I have a publication named “pluginMaven” and “com.foo.pluginMarkerMaven”.

My nmcp block is configured like so:

nmcp {
    publish("pluginMaven") {
      username = System.getenv("OSSRH_USERNAME")
      password = System.getenv("OSSRH_PASSWORD")
      // or if you want to publish automatically
      publicationType = "USER_MANAGED"
    }
    publish("com.foo.pluginMarkerMaven") {
      username = System.getenv("OSSRH_USERNAME")
      password = System.getenv("OSSRH_PASSWORD")
      // or if you want to publish automatically
      publicationType = "USER_MANAGED"
    }
}

The build fails with Nmcp: cannot find publication 'pluginMaven'. Candidates are: ‘’ I would expect it not to fail.

To fix this I add afterEvaluate.

nmcp {
  afterEvaluate {
    publish("pluginMaven") {
      username = System.getenv("OSSRH_USERNAME")
      password = System.getenv("OSSRH_PASSWORD")
      // or if you want to publish automatically
      publicationType = "USER_MANAGED"
    }
    publish("com.foo.pluginMarkerMaven") {
      username = System.getenv("OSSRH_USERNAME")
      password = System.getenv("OSSRH_PASSWORD")
      // or if you want to publish automatically
      publicationType = "USER_MANAGED"
    }
  }
}

Related environent and versions

I’m using Gradle 8.12.1 and nmcp 0.0.8 and gradle plugin publish 1.3.1

Reproduction steps

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Anything else?

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[martinbonnin]

Thanks for opening this!

I'm guessing gradle plugin publish creates the publication? And they are probably created after your script is evaluated?

We could do something like publications.configureEach {} and check for the name of the poublication in there to make everything more lazy. This always gets me a bit itchy because it goes in callback hell land but this is probably the way forward here. I'll dig!