Custom Grails plugin dependency

Question

I have a custom grails plugin I m trying to develop and set this

def dependsOn = [dataSource: "1.0"]

in the Plugin script.

Now, my custom plugin loads just fine but I dont see tomcat installed in my application. How does one install a dependency plugin (prompt the user to say yes/no)? Is this even possible?

Answer 1

Not sure what Grails version you're using, but Grails 1.2 has much improved dependency management for plugins and apps; see this post by Graeme Rocher for details.

Answer 2

Once your plugin is published, this should work. Try:

grails install-plugin nimble

You will see that both Nimble and Shiro are installed (Nimble depends on Shiro).