DATACOUCH-29

[dharrigan]

Add Gradle (1.8) to Spring Data Couchbase.

-=david=-

[daschl]

Hi @dharrigan

thanks for your PR, but what is the reason you want to add gradle? the project is currently a maven project, I'm not sure I see the immediate benefit of it (other than having to duplicate build changes all the time).

Let me know, thanks :)

[dharrigan]

Hi Michael,

I think the main reason is that if this is becoming an official Spring project, I believe it should adopt the trend in Spring that the majority of projects have now moved to Gradle as their official build system. I believe that in the long term this would need to be done anyway, so perhaps get it in sooner rather than later is nice :-)

Thank you again for this nice project. I'm actively looking at ways to contribute. I've hand written the Java <-> Couchbase code that uses your couchbase-client jar and Spring, so seeing this come is great - I can eventually remove a lot of boiler plate code :-) Esp when find* methods come by :-)

-=david=-

[daschl]

@olivergierke what do you think, should we move over to gradle completely? I basically don't care on the project, its just that I want to avoid duplicating work if possible. What's the long term strategy for the whole spring-data package?

[odrotbohm]

So far, we're not planning to move the Spring Data Projects to Gradle anytime soon. This is mostly due to the fact that the IDE support for inter-project dependencies in the IDE (esp. Eclipse) is still underwhelming and there's no obvious benefits over the currently just working build.

[daschl]

@dharrigan then I think we should stick with a unified dependency management tool so we don't mix around too much.

Does that work for you wrt to olivers response?

[dharrigan]

Hi,

Of course :-) I defer to the experts :-)

I would say that with gradle it's a simple matter of doing "gradlew eclipse" or "gradlew idea" to generate all the projects files and dependency links :-)

I do hope that Eclipse gets good Gradle support soon (I use IntelliJ and that seems to be making good progress).

-=david=-

[daschl]

@dharrigan I'm also using IntelliJ and I think we'll move to gradle on the official java client for the next major version as well. But we'll see.

Anyways, thanks for the contribution(s)! Greatly appreciated!

[dharrigan]

You are most welcome. I'm keen to help out more if I can! :-)