scanner.next();
        scanner.mark();
        scanner.find(';');
        String value = ENTITIES.get(scanner.region().toLowerCase());
        buffer.append(value);
        scanner.next();
    }

    private void parseHtmlEncodedChar(StringBuilder buffer) {
        scanner.next(2);
        scanner.mark();
        scanner.find(';');

            .onEach { if (!contributorLineRegex.containsMatchIn(it)) throw IllegalStateException("Invalid contributor line: $it") }
            .map { GitHubUser(contributorLineRegex.find(it)!!.groupValues[2], contributorLineRegex.find(it)!!.groupValues[1]) }
            .toSet()
    }

    /**
     * Parses the release notes file and returns the triple: (linesBeforeContributors, contributorLines, linesAfterContributors)
     */

        return classes.values().findAll { !it.name.contains('.internal.') }
    }

    boolean isKnownType(String className) {
        return classMetaData.find(className) != null
    }

    gradlebuild.docs.dsl.docbook.model.ClassDoc findClassDoc(String className) {
        gradlebuild.docs.dsl.docbook.model.ClassDoc classDoc = classes[className]

    public T get(String fullyQualifiedClassName) {
        T t = find(fullyQualifiedClassName);
        if (t == null) {
            throw new UnknownDomainObjectException(String.format("No meta-data is available for class '%s'. Did you mean? %s", fullyQualifiedClassName, findPossibleMatches(fullyQualifiedClassName)));
        }
        return t;
    }

    @Override
    public T find(String fullyQualifiedClassName) {

    /**
     * Moves the position to the start of the next instance of the given pattern, or the end of the input if not
     * found.
     */
    public void find(Pattern pattern) {
        Matcher m = pattern.matcher(input);
        m.region(pos, input.length());
        if (m.find()) {
            pos = m.start();
        } else {
            pos = input.length();
        }
    }

    /**

            if (baseName.equals("*")) {
                candidateClassName = StringUtils.substringBeforeLast(importedClass, ".") + "." + name;
                if (metaDataRepository.find(candidateClassName) != null) {
                    return candidateClassName;
                }
                if (importedClass.startsWith("java.") && isVisibleSystemClass(candidateClassName)) {

    PropertyDoc findProperty(String name) {
        return classProperties.find { it.name == name }
    }

    BlockDoc getBlock(String name) {
        def block = classBlocks.find { it.name == name }
        if (block) {
            return block
        }
        for (extensionDoc in classExtensions) {
            block = extensionDoc.extensionBlocks.find { it.name == name }
            if (block) {
                return block

    boolean isReplaced() {
        return metaData.replaced
    }

    @Override
    String getReplacement() {
        return metaData.replacement
    }

    Element getDescription() {
        return comment.find { it.nodeName == 'para' }
    }

    List<Element> getComment() {
        return comment
    }

    List<ExtraAttributeDoc> getAdditionalValues() {
        return additionalValues
    }

Be aware these are very technical descriptions of the decisions, and you might find the documentation below more useful as an introduction to the internals of Gradle.

## Platform architecture

Gradle is arranged into several coarse-grained components called "platforms".
Each platform provides support for some kind of automation, such as building JVM software or building Gradle plugins.

    val runtimeClasspath by configurations
    val externalComponents by lazy {
        runtimeClasspath.incoming.resolutionResult.rootComponent.map { rootComponent ->
            val rootVariant = rootComponent.variants.find { it.displayName == runtimeClasspath.name }
            rootVariant?.let { computeExternalDependenciesNotAccessibleFromProjectDependencies(rootComponent, it) } ?: emptySet()
        }.get()
    }