This project, written in Groovy, is a gradle plugin used by the Base Connector
framework in order to automatically generate a Configuration Java code class
based upon the configuration.structure.yaml in the project.
This is done so that common configuration types, particularly those for authentication, do not have to be copied/pasted or rewritten for every connector implementation that has similar configuration needs. It also eliminates some risk for making a mistake in manual creation of the Configuration class. The Connid framework uses reflection and expects the look and be structured in a very particular way, which this plugin is aware of and adheres to.
Every connector updating to the 2.0+ base connector framework will now need to:
- have a
configuration.structure.ymlwritten and present in the top-level directory. - have
build.gradlesetup to have the plugin ran and code generated, prior to the start of compiling Java.