Use versions catalog for convention plugins

[piloudu]

Description

This technical improvement PR aims at providing type-safe plugin references by registering the convention plugins in the libs.versions.catalog file

Some advantages:

• Centralise logic in the versions catalog
• Provide type-safe plugin references

[Morfly]

Thank you for your contribution @piloudu!
Would you mind squashing the commits and adding a message in a format
feat: <preferred name>, to avoid the lint warning, please?

We can make kotlin("jvm") and id("kotlin-parcelize") plugins as aliases too.

[piloudu]

Thank you for your contribution @piloudu! Would you mind squashing the commits and adding a message in a format feat: <preferred name>, to avoid the lint warning, please?

Hi @Morfly! Sure, I've just made those changes. Could you check again if everything looks good for you?

We can make kotlin("jvm") and id("kotlin-parcelize") plugins as aliases too.

I've applied the same approach to the kotlin("jvm"), id("kotlin-parcelize") and kotlin(kapt) plugins. For these cases an alias can't be used but we can still use id(libs.plugins.<pluginNameInCatalog>.get().pluginId). The reason is:

// Using alias as follows...
plugins {
    alias(libs.plugins.sample)
}

// ... is the same as applying the plugin with an specific version
plugins {
    id(libs.plugins.sample.get().pluginId) version libs.plugins.sample.get().version apply true
}

Taking this into consideration, any id("<pluginId>") that doesn't specify the plugin version must be converted into id(libs.plugins.<pluginNameInCatalog>.get().pluginId)

[Morfly]

@piloudu thank you for the update.

We can still use these plugins as alias
In order to do it, we need to explicitly apply them in the root build.gradle.kts file similarly to other plugins.
Also, as for kotlin-parcelize please read my comment in the code, it could be also applied as an alias.

[piloudu]

@piloudu thank you for the update.

We can still use these plugins as alias In order to do it, we need to explicitly apply them in the root build.gradle.kts file similarly to other plugins. Also, as for kotlin-parcelize please read my comment in the code, it could be also applied as an alias.

That's a great point! I didn't know that id("pluginId") declarations could be translated into alias ones by declaring the plugin in the root build.gradle.kts file.

I've performed those changes and I'm up to new suggestions if needed

[Morfly]

Thank you for making the updates to the PR @piloudu. all looks good to me!

[piloudu]

Thank you for making the updates to the PR @piloudu. all looks good to me!

Great! Thanks @Morfly for taking the time to review this PR and kudos on this great library 👏