Improve Gradle Configuration

[jimlyas]

Description

This PR include:

• Use version catalog for applying gradle plugin
• Removing unused entry in version catalog
• Removing docs module and instead setup dokka at the root project

For documentation using dokka, I think it's unnecessary creating a module just to trigger task for documentation generation.

Now the gradle task can be triggered from the root project like this:

And the documentation will be generated here:

Validation

With this changes, the code still run as intended.

Screen.Recording.2025-09-11.at.09.13.07.mov

[fire-light42]

Looks good code-wise, but I am unsure if this will break some github workflow like dokka. @C10udburst can you take a look at this.

[azwarbahar]

LGTM

[Luna712]

Have the things I mentioned in #1493 been tested to not happen (like the error unknown class with library documentation)? IIRC I tried something very similar to this initially but it led to some of those issues so changed it a bit. Just want to confirm though.

[jimlyas]

like the error unknown class with library documentation)

Hi @Luna712, It's not happening when I run the dokka task

11.39.59: Executing 'dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml --rerun-tasks'…

Executing tasks: [dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml] in project /./cloudstream

Reusing configuration cache.
> Task :library:checkKotlinGradlePluginConfigurationErrors SKIPPED
> Task :library:preBuild UP-TO-DATE
> Task :library:preDebugBuild UP-TO-DATE
> Task :library:preReleaseBuild UP-TO-DATE
> Task :library:generateDebugResValues
> Task :library:generateReleaseResValues
> Task :library:javaPreCompileDebug
> Task :library:javaPreCompileRelease
> Task :library:generateDebugResources
> Task :library:generateReleaseResources
> Task :library:generateBuildKonfig
> Task :library:packageDebugResources
> Task :library:packageReleaseResources
> Task :library:parseDebugLocalResources
> Task :library:parseReleaseLocalResources
> Task :library:generateReleaseRFile
> Task :library:generateDebugRFile
> Task :library:transformCommonMainDependenciesMetadata

> Task :library:compileReleaseKotlinAndroid
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/MainAPI.kt:430:12 'constructor(items: List<SearchResponse>, hasNext: Boolean = ...): SearchResponseList' is deprecated. Use newSearchResponseList method.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/extractors/YoutubeExtractor.kt:70:47 'val url: String?' is deprecated. Deprecated in Java.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/metaproviders/MyDramaList.kt:323:33 Unchecked cast of 'kotlin.Any?' to 'kotlin.collections.Map<kotlin.String, kotlin.String>'.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/metaproviders/TmdbProvider.kt:145:30 'var rating: Int?' is deprecated. `rating` is the old scoring system, use score instead.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/metaproviders/TraktProvider.kt:242:34 'var rating: Int?' is deprecated. `rating` is the old scoring system, use score instead.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/utils/HlsPlaylistParser.kt:1028:20 'val APPLICATION_RAWCC: String' is deprecated. RawCC is a Google-internal subtitle format that isn't supported by this version of
        Media3. There is no replacement for this value.

> Task :library:compileReleaseJavaWithJavac NO-SOURCE

> Task :library:compileDebugKotlinAndroid
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/MainAPI.kt:430:12 'constructor(items: List<SearchResponse>, hasNext: Boolean = ...): SearchResponseList' is deprecated. Use newSearchResponseList method.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/extractors/YoutubeExtractor.kt:70:47 'val url: String?' is deprecated. Deprecated in Java.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/metaproviders/MyDramaList.kt:323:33 Unchecked cast of 'kotlin.Any?' to 'kotlin.collections.Map<kotlin.String, kotlin.String>'.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/metaproviders/TmdbProvider.kt:145:30 'var rating: Int?' is deprecated. `rating` is the old scoring system, use score instead.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/metaproviders/TraktProvider.kt:242:34 'var rating: Int?' is deprecated. `rating` is the old scoring system, use score instead.
w: file://./cloudstream/library/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lagradost/cloudstream3/utils/HlsPlaylistParser.kt:1028:20 'val APPLICATION_RAWCC: String' is deprecated. RawCC is a Google-internal subtitle format that isn't supported by this version of
        Media3. There is no replacement for this value.

> Task :library:compileDebugJavaWithJavac NO-SOURCE
> Task :library:processDebugJavaRes
> Task :library:processReleaseJavaRes
> Task :library:bundleLibCompileToJarRelease
> Task :library:bundleLibRuntimeToJarRelease
> Task :library:bundleLibCompileToJarDebug
> Task :library:bundleLibRuntimeToJarDebug
> Task :library:createFullJarDebug
> Task :library:createFullJarRelease
> Task :library:dokkaGenerateModuleHtml
> Task :library:dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml
> Task :app:dokkaGenerateModuleHtml
> Task :app:dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml

> Task :library:logLinkDokkaGeneratePublicationHtml
Generated Dokka HTML publication: http://localhost:63342/CloudStream/library/build/dokka/html/index.html

> Task :app:logLinkDokkaGeneratePublicationHtml
Generated Dokka HTML publication: http://localhost:63342/CloudStream/app/build/dokka/html/index.html

> Task :dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml

> Task :logLinkDokkaGeneratePublicationHtml
Generated Dokka HTML publication: http://localhost:63342/CloudStream/build/dokka/html/index.html

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 2m 22s
32 actionable tasks: 32 executed
Configuration cache entry reused.

Build Analyzer results available
11.42.22: Execution finished 'dokkaGeneratePublicationHtml --rerun-tasks'.

And the source link work as intended

source.link.mp4