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The plugin was incompatible with Gradle's isolated projects feature. Enabling it failed every multi-project build that applied the plugin to a subproject:

6 problems were found storing the configuration cache, 2 of which seem unique.
- Plugin 'org.checkerframework': Project ':a' cannot dynamically look up a property in the parent project ':'
- Plugin 'org.checkerframework': Project ':b' cannot dynamically look up a property in the parent project ':'

Every problem came from projectProperty, which used Project.findProperty. That method falls back to a parent project when the property is not set on this project, and the feature forbids that cross-project access. The fallback happens on every lookup of an unset property, so the failure occurred even in a build that set none of the plugin's project properties.

Structurally the plugin was already clean: no rootProject, allprojects, subprojects, or findProject, and CheckerManifestService is already the isolated-projects-friendly way to share state. This one helper was the whole problem.

The fix

Read project properties through ExtraPropertiesExtension instead:

-    if (!project.hasProperty(propertyName)) {
+    val extraProperties = project.extensions.extraProperties
+    if (!extraProperties.has(propertyName)) {
       return null
     }
     val value =
-      project.findProperty(propertyName)
+      extraProperties.get(propertyName)

The existing comment on projectProperty documented three reasons not to use ProviderFactory.gradleProperty. I checked all three, and all three are still real:

Claim about gradleProperty Verdict
Does not see ext extra properties Confirmed on 9.2.1
Does not see a subproject gradle.properties (gradle#23572) Confirmed on 9.2.1; still open
Fails at configuration time on Gradle 7.3 Confirmed on 7.3.3, but only with the configuration cache enabled

So gradleProperty remains unusable here. ExtraPropertiesExtension is a third option that avoids all three problems and is also isolated-projects-safe:

Property source findProperty (before) gradleProperty extraProperties (after)
Command line -P yes yes yes
Root gradle.properties yes yes yes
Subproject gradle.properties yes no yes
-Dorg.gradle.project.X yes yes yes
Own project ext yes no yes
Parent project ext yes no no
Isolated-projects-safe no yes yes

Incompatible change

A subproject no longer inherits the cfVersion or skipCheckerFramework project property from a parent project's ext:

// in the top-level build.gradle -- no longer read by subprojects
ext.cfVersion = "3.53.1"

Such a build must set the property in a gradle.properties file or on the command line, either of which works in every subproject; ext in the subproject's own build.gradle also still works. This loss is inherent to the feature rather than to the choice of API: reading a parent project's ext is exactly what isolated projects forbids. Every other way of setting the two properties is unaffected.

Tests

New IsolatedProjectsFunctionalTest covers a multi-project build with the feature enabled: cache store and reuse, -PcfVersion, -PskipCheckerFramework, a subproject gradle.properties file, and a subproject ext property. All five tests fail before this change and pass after it, so they are not vacuous. The class skips below Gradle 8.2.1 through the existing Kotlin DSL gate.

Verified locally on Gradle 7.3.3 (the oldest supported), 8.2.1 (the gate version), and 9.2.1: 79 tests, 0 failures. I also confirmed that the unfixed plugin fails under isolated projects at 8.2.1, so the gate version is one where the new test is meaningful. The rest of the CI matrix is untested locally.

Documentation

The README now claims isolated projects compatibility and has a new subsection under Multi-project builds with the two requirements the feature places on a build. A new CHANGELOG.md records the incompatible change; the repo has not had a changelog before, so drop it if that is not wanted.

Note on Approach 1

While documenting this I found that README Approach 1 cannot work under isolated projects at all, independently of this plugin. Its subprojects { ... } block is itself the forbidden access:

- Build file 'build.gradle': line 5: Project ':' cannot access 'Project.apply' functionality on subprojects
- Build file 'build.gradle': line 8: Project ':' cannot access 'checkerFramework' extension on subprojects

The new section says to use Approach 2, but I left the ordering and wording of the two approaches alone, since reworking that section is an editorial call this change does not force.

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mernst and others added 2 commits September 15, 2026 18:18
Read project properties through ExtraPropertiesExtension rather than
Project.findProperty.  findProperty falls back to a parent project when the
property is not set on this project, which is cross-project model access that
the isolated projects feature forbids: "Project ':a' cannot dynamically look up
a property in the parent project ':'".  The fallback happens on every lookup of
an unset property, so the plugin violated the feature in every multi-project
build, even one that sets none of the plugin's project properties.

ExtraPropertiesExtension reads the same properties as findProperty except for an
extra property that a parent project's build script sets via `ext`, which
reading is exactly what the feature forbids.  It avoids the three problems that
made ProviderFactory.gradleProperty unusable here: it sees extra properties, it
sees a gradle.properties file in a subproject directory, and, because it is not
a provider, it can be read at configuration time on Gradle 7.3.

Add IsolatedProjectsFunctionalTest, which covers a multi-project build, the
-PcfVersion and -PskipCheckerFramework command-line properties, a subproject
gradle.properties file, and a subproject extra property.  All five tests fail
before this change and pass after it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
State in the README that the plugin is compatible with isolated projects, and
add a "Multi-project builds" subsection for the two requirements that the
feature places on a build: Approach 1 does not work under it, because
configuring subprojects from the top-level build file is what the feature
forbids, and a subproject no longer inherits the cfVersion or
skipCheckerFramework project property from a parent project's `ext`.

Add a changelog that records the same incompatible change.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The plugin now reads project properties from the current project's extra properties after checking command-line values, avoiding ancestor-project lookups. Functional tests resolve the published plugin from a local repository and cover isolated projects, configuration-cache reuse, property precedence, local overrides, and non-inherited root ext properties. The README documents per-subproject configuration, convention plugins, property sources, and isolated-project restrictions.

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TestKit's injected plugin classpath is not safe to resolve from more than one
project at a time.  IsolatedProjectsFunctionalTest is the only test class whose
build configures projects in parallel, so it is the only one exposed: about 3%
of cold-start runs failed with "Error resolving plugin
[id: 'org.checkerframework']", followed by a null or empty state from within the
resolver.

Publish the plugin to a file-based Maven repository under the build directory,
and have the test resolve it through pluginManagement, as a user would.  Every
other test class keeps using the injected classpath.

Measured over cold runs of the whole test class: 1 failure in 32 before, 0 in 75
after.

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The path is interpolated into a generated Kotlin settings script, where a
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🟠 Major · Use a plugin version that contains isolated-project support. · README.md:237

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Use a plugin version that contains isolated-project support.

This convention-plugin example pins version 1.0.2. README.md Line 312 states that version 1.0.2 and earlier retain ancestor-property inheritance. A build that copies this example therefore loads the implementation that this PR replaces, despite the claim on Lines 267-269 that the convention works with isolated projects. Update the dependency to the release that contains this change. The Plugin Portal confirms that this coordinate resolves version 1.0.2. (plugins.gradle.org)

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