Encrypting passwords

It is common to have multiple passwords in your gradle.properties file when using ml-gradle, as there are multiple MarkLogic users that you may need to configure (see Property Reference for a list of the various user roles).

Instead of storing these passwords in plaintext in gradle.properties though, you may want to retrieve them from a location where they're encrypted. A common solution for this with Gradle is to use this Gradle credentials plugin for storing and retrieving encrypted credentials. Googling on "gradle encrypted passwords" will return some other solutions too.