Floor plan Gradle Plugin

[runningcode]

This would be cool as a Gradle Plugin to automatically find the latest Room schema files instead of having to pass their file path.

[segunfamisa]

I started doing some work on this.

And as a first step, I figured I had to modularize the project (see PR on my fork of the project segunfamisa#1)

I was wondering what you & @julioz think about that? If you think it's a good idea to do modularize this, I'll open a PR against this repo for review.

[julioz]

@segunfamisa Yep I think that makes sense, the CLI part of FloorPlan is definitely something that can be pulled out; in fact I was already doing some research to replace the manual command-line handling with a more powerful and extensible tool, like Clikt.

Having the separation will help with that and potentially enable other UI forms: I also thought, at some point, that eventually we could make :core a multiplatform project and run it in the browser with Kotlin/JS. I envisioned a Chrome extension that could pick up Roomsql and automatically render the DBML representation side-by-side in GitHub for example.

[julioz]

A lot of work has been merged over the past days to allow for FloorPlan to use DBML as in intermediate representation between the input DB schemas and the output ER diagram.

Now, we still hardcode DBML as the output format, but I have added the ability for FloorPlan to render SVG, Dot and PNG files as well.

Since some of the work for the gradle plugin has already started, that might require some rework on your fork @segunfamisa, sorry about that. Nevertheless, now we might be able to make the gradle plugin way more powerful and useful by automatically generating human-consumable files instead skipping the DBML learning curve altogether.

[julioz]

Started the work in #31

Next steps are to finally publish it to Maven Central to make the snapshot available through Gradle: #35

[julioz]

Maven setup done in 53d6f8e

Gradle plug-in published:

• gradle plug-in portal https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.juliozynger.floorplan
• maven central https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.juliozynger.floorplan/floorplan-gradle-plugin

Thanks for the help @segunfamisa @runningcode