gradle maven publish Pom using kotlin-dsl - gradle

Question

I have a multiplatform kotlin library project that publishes to maven and have been updating to the kotlin 1.3 multiplatform model and kotlin-dsl
The previous groovy gradle script has a modifyPom block, and i found an example here. However as soon as I add
val modifyPom : Closure<*> by ext
modifyPom(closureOf<MavenPom> {
// pom code in here
})
I get the same result no matter what is in the pom data, which is that the call of the modifyPom groovy closure breaks the build with a very vague error:
Build file '<path>\build.gradle.kts' line: 47
Open File
In other words the line number of the call of modifyPom groovy Closure, but nothing about the actual error.
I am using Gradle 5.0. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

So - in Groovy I had this block for configuring POMs, and it worked just fine:
project.publishing.publications.forEach { publication ->
publication.pom.withXml {
def root = asNode()
root.appendNode("name", "libui")
root.appendNode("description", "Kotlin/Native interop to libui: a portable GUI library")
root.appendNode("url", POM_SCM_URL)
root.children().last() + {
licenses {
license {
name "MIT License"
url POM_SCM_URL
distribution "repo"
}
}
developers {
developer {
id "msink"
name "Mike Sinkovsky"
email "msink#permonline.ru"
}
}
scm {
url POM_SCM_URL
connection POM_SCM_CONNECTION
developerConnection POM_SCM_DEV_CONNECTION
}
}
}
}
And how to convert it to Kotlin DSL?
Edit:
Well, was answered in https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/issues/2372
In Gradle Kotlin DSL it becomes:
project.publishing.publications.withType<MavenPublication>().forEach { publication ->
with(publication.pom) {
withXml {
val root = asNode()
root.appendNode("name", "libui")
root.appendNode("description", "Kotlin/Native interop to libui: a portable GUI library")
root.appendNode("url", POM_SCM_URL)
}
licenses {
license {
name.set("MIT License")
url.set(POM_SCM_URL)
distribution.set("repo")
}
}
developers {
developer {
id.set("msink")
name.set("Mike Sinkovsky")
email.set("msink#permonline.ru")
}
}
scm {
url.set(POM_SCM_URL)
connection.set(POM_SCM_CONNECTION)
developerConnection.set(POM_SCM_DEV_CONNECTION)
}
}
}

Answer 2

This problem was fixed by changing the definition of modifyPom to
val modifyPom : Closure<MavenPom> by ext
That fixed the original problem as posted, and the pom is now being modified. If anyone needs help, add a comment and hopefully I will notice