Plugin Dependency Resolution

[mandrachek]

I'm attempting to use findbugs and pmd in my buildscript, eg:

apply plugin: 'pmd'
apply plugin: 'findbugs'

According to the documentation (findbugs | pmd) these two plugins add additional dependency configurations, 'findbugs' and 'pmd'.

Adding these to my offlineDependencies { configurations } doesn't result in an error, but it looks like the dependencies are determined at the runtime of the plugin, and as such aren't available when running ./gradlew updateOfflineRepository

I was able to work around this by running ./gradlew check updateOfflineRepository which causes the dependency configurations for these tools to be resolved and the offline repository populated with the needed dependencies.

I imagine this could be an issue with a number of the default gradle plugins. While this is an ok workaround, I wonder if there's any way to find and force evaluation of plugin provided dependency configurations?