How To Configure Placeholders (Gradle?)?

[fallen bison]

Hello. I am working on a MC mod and have never understood fully what gradle is or what it is actually doing.
I noticed in the templates I am using that some fields have placeholders like in this .toml block below:

[[dependencies]]
modId = "example_mod_id"
mandatory = true
versionRange = "[${em_version},)"

I want to use them more and develop my templates.

I understand that they are read from my gradle.properties file during the gradle process.

• How do I use them?
• What do I have to know to be able to set this up without a template? Is it configured in the build.gradle?

Any knowledge is appreciated 🙂

[alpine swift]

<@&987246652869971988> please have a look, thanks.

[night ingot]

gradle is a build and dependency tool

imagine ur program needs to copy some files around whenever u want to run it, gradle can do that

or create a file

or for example when u want to make a final launchable file (jar or exe), gradle can create that for u

or if u want to upload it somewhere (for example a library to maven central)

that's the build aspect at least

the dependency aspect is that it can download external code for u and add it to the project

that's what a lot of people use it for

(maven is an alternative to gradle btw)

[fallen bison]

Does it have anything to do with these placeholders? My template contains a file called gradle.properties that it uses.

Perhaps gradle is reading from it because my template uses a plugin, and I should be asking somehwere else?

[alpine swift]

Changed the category to Build Tools.

<@&987246554085740594> please have a look, thanks.

[fallen bison]

ty for changing the category

I am discovering that this is not a standard gradle feature, anyway.