# PublishingExtension

API Documentation: | `PublishingExtension`

The configuration of how to “publish” the different components of a project.

### Properties

Property | Description
`publications` | The publications of the project.
`repositories` | The container of possible repositories to publish to.

### Methods

Method | Description
`publications(configure)` | Configures the publications of this project.
`repositories(configure)` | Configures the container of possible repositories to publish to.

### Script blocks

No script blocks

### Property details

#### `PublicationContainer` `publications` (read-only)

The publications of the project.

See `PublishingExtension.publications(org.gradle.api.Action)` for more information.

#### `RepositoryHandler` `repositories` (read-only)

The container of possible repositories to publish to.

See `PublishingExtension.repositories(org.gradle.api.Action)` for more information.

### Method details

#### `void` `publications`(``Action`<? super `PublicationContainer`>` configure)

Configures the publications of this project.

The publications container defines the outgoing publications of the project. That is, the consumable representations of things produced by building the project. An example of a publication would be an Ivy Module (i.e. `ivy.xml` and artifacts), or Maven Project (i.e. `pom.xml` and artifacts).

Actual publication implementations and the ability to create them are provided by different plugins. The “publishing” plugin itself does not provide any publication types. For example, given that the 'maven-publish' plugin provides a `MavenPublication` type, you can create a publication like:

    apply plugin: 'maven-publish'

    publishing {
      publications {
        myPublicationName(MavenPublication) {
          // Configure the publication here
        }
      }
    }

Please see `IvyPublication` and `MavenPublication` for more information on publishing in these specific formats.

#### `void` `repositories`(``Action`<? super `RepositoryHandler`>` configure)

Configures the container of possible repositories to publish to.

    apply plugin: 'publishing'

    publishing {
      repositories {
        // Create an ivy publication destination named “releases”
        ivy {
          name "releases"
          url "http://my.org/ivy-repos/releases"
        }
      }
    }

The `repositories` block is backed by a `RepositoryHandler`, which is the same DSL as that that is used for declaring repositories to consume dependencies from. However, certain types of repositories that can be created by the repository handler are not valid for publishing, such as `RepositoryHandler.mavenCentral()`.

At this time, only repositories created by the `ivy()` factory method have any effect. Please see `IvyPublication` for information on how this can be used for publishing to Ivy repositories.