build.gradle: trying to auto-skip nexus and release directly to maven central

Author: asafc

.github/workflows/publish.yaml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Publish package
         uses: gradle/gradle-build-action@v2
         with:
-          arguments: publish
+          arguments: publish publishToSonatype closeAndReleaseSonatypeStagingRepository
         env:
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
           OSSRH_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.OSSRH_USERNAME }}

build.gradle

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ plugins {
     id 'signing'
     // the git-version plugin helps us to publish an auto version (taken from git tags)
     id 'com.palantir.git-version' version '0.13.0'
+    // auto release to maven central (skip sonatype manual nexus release process)
+    id("io.github.gradle-nexus.publish-plugin") version "1.1.0"
 }
 
 // sets the java package version automatically (looks at the git repo, latest tags, commit hashes, etc)
@@ -103,6 +105,17 @@ publishing {
     }
 }
 
+nexusPublishing {
+    repositories {
+        sonatype {
+            nexusUrl.set(uri("https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/service/local/"))
+            snapshotRepositoryUrl.set(uri("https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/"))
+            username = System.getenv("OSSRH_USERNAME")
+            password = System.getenv("OSSRH_PASSWORD")
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 signing {
     def GPG_SIGNING_KEY = findProperty("signingKey") ?: System.getenv("GPG_SIGNING_KEY")
     def GPG_SIGNING_PASSPHRASE = findProperty("signingPassword") ?: System.getenv("GPG_SIGNING_PASSPHRASE")