[Feature Request] Provide example of how to include in a Kotlin Gradle project

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I'm using a Kotlin Gradle project with the com.google.protobuf and build.buf plugins, and am confused about how to use protovalidate-java with this setup. A reference example configuration of how to configure a Kotlin Gradle project with this library would save a lot of time and probably increase adoption.

The context of my project started as a multi-module gradle project compiling multiple proto languages, using the com.google.protobuf and build.buf plugins. I got stuck trying to figure out how to incorporate the protovalidate plugin using its directions into my gradle-flavored configurations settings in the .gradle.kts file.

Next I tried removing the com.google.protobuf plugin usage and instead use the buf generate CLI directly and pointed my IDE at the generated sources, which seems like a cleaner path anyway for a multi-language project. My code compiles, but I'm not seeing validation happen, and don't have proper IDE support for the buf/validate/validate.proto file as shown in this screenshot.

I can create a sample repo if it'd be useful to debug my situation, and am happy to submit a PR with a reference example if I can get past these new user issues.

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@jhump helped me, and I created a working example here: https://github.com/dtanner/buf-sandbox

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Separate problem, but I'd still like to know a clean way to import things like the validate.proto file in the IDE.

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Just discovered this feature in IDEA; enabling Search for imported files in indexes works, at least for this library.

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I'm closing this issue since I haven't heard any interest from the maintainers to add any of this to the project, but I'll keep the linked project around for anyone that finds this in the future and is looking for a working example for this timeframe.