Tooling API Developer Guide
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- Java
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Description
A guide describing how the Tooling API works at a deeper level, what our design philosophy is ("the build is the source of truth") and how to retrieve custom information for your tool. I repeatedly get asked why Buildship does not provide some elaborate extension point and always say "You extend Buildship through Gradle" and I would really love to just point people to a great explanation. We have a nice blog post about this, but I think it could use some deeper architectural and philosophical explanation.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked Gradle Tooling API blog post and reviewing the existing guides structure. The guide should explain how the Tooling API works, why the build is the source of truth, why Buildship is extended through Gradle, and how to retrieve custom tool information.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- developer-experience, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100