How can I publish many dependant subprojects in a certain order with gradle? - gradle

Question

I'm trying to publish two subprojects with gradle. I have two subprojects: SubprojectA is dependant on SubprojectB. I want to publish them both using maven-publish. I have this in build.gradle:
plugins {
id 'java'
id 'maven-publish'
}
publishing {
publications {
SubprojectA(MavenPublication) {
println(project(':subprojectA').tasks)
groupId group
artifactId 'subjprojectA'
version version
artifact project(':subprojectA').tasks.getByName('jar')
}
SubprojectB(MavenPublication) {
groupId group
artifactId 'subjprojectB'
version version
artifact project(':subjprojectB').tasks.getByName('jar')
}
}
repositories {
maven {
url "http://some-url"
}
}
}
Gradle tries to publish them in alphabetical order: Since subprojectA depends on subprojectB, it doesn't work because subprojectB hasn't been published yet. If I rename subprojectA to ZSubprojectA, like this:
ZSubprojectA(MavenPublication) {
println(project(':subprojectA').tasks)
groupId group
artifactId 'subprojectA'
version version
artifact project(':subprojectA').tasks.getByName('jar')
}
then it works, but I don't like this solution. I've tried something like this:
project(':subprojectA') {
publish.dependsOn(":subprojectB:build")
}
but it doesn't work, and :subprojectB:publish doesn't exist.

Answer 1

I've been able to solve it. This was the problem:
Both subprojects had their respective build.gradle files. In subprojectA's build.gradle there was something like this:
plugins {
id 'java'
}
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
dependencies {
testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
implementation group: 'com.neovisionaries', name: 'nv-i18n', version: '1.22'
implementation group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-lang3', version: '3.1'
implementation group: 'com.myorg.something', name: 'subprojectB', version: '1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'
}
Therefore it was trying to get subprojectB from my organization private repository, and I should have done something like this:
compile project(":subprojectB")
I should have include both build.gradle files in my question. But the problem is solved.