Migration of the serial library to Gradle

[madhav2348]

Description

Migrated the serial library from Ant-based build.xml to Gradle build.gradle.kts

Resolve Issue

• Move serial Library to Gradle #1099

Changes

• Added Gradle build logic using Kotlin DSL
• Removed ant.importBuild("build.xml")
• Add settings.gradle.kts

Let me know if further adjustments are needed!

[Stefterv]

Hi @madhav2348 I have opened #1189 as an example of how this kind of migration should be approached. Would you be interested in adjusting your approach based on that PR?

[madhav2348]

Sure , I'll be happy to work on that

[madhav2348]

hi @Stefterv , taking your example as reference, I searched jssc in Maven repository for the serial library :

dependencies {
    compileOnly(project(":core"))
    implementation("org.scream3r:jssc:2.8.0")  
}

But it doesn't have the method getPortProperties()used in :

processing4/java/libraries/serial/src/processing/serial/Serial.java

Lines 262 to 265 in 3f36db5

	public static Map<String, String> getProperties(String portName) {
	return SerialPortList.getPortProperties(portName);
	}

Somehow I found this issue processing/processing@f0cc875

now gohai/java-simple-serial-connector is only a repo, but doesn't have any release or .jar file that I could use Jitpack
and also there is no previous release I could find in the original repo

the solution I thought is

• use the jssc.jar in the library directory

or fork the repo and build/upload the .jar file in release

But I need your advice on this: if I'm doing it right!

Thankyou

[Stefterv]

Hi @madhav2348 thank you for flagging this and doing some of the initial research!

Looking at the history it seems that the last change reverted it back to a version of https://github.com/java-native/jssc rather than a custom build. Please check if the latest (2.10.2) works or try to find out which version is currently in the repo.

Otherwise just use an implementation() tag pointing at the existing .jar and add a TODO pointing to https://github.com/java-native/jssc and create a new issue here in the repo to request migration of jssc to a supported build on maven.

[madhav2348]

would creating an issue be the correct step ? because it is customized by a previous contributor and its depending for many years
latest version (2.10.2) and other previous version not working of https://github.com/java-native/jssc , I searched most of releases

processing4/java/libraries/serial/library/jssc.txt

Line 1 in 3f36db5

This is using a modified version of Java Simple Serial Connector by Alexey Sokolov. See https://github.com/gohai/java-simple-serial-connector and https://github.com/sampottinger/jssc for details on the modifications to support Processing.