Cleanest way in Gradle to get the path to a jar file in the gradle dependency cache

Question

I\'m using Gradle to help automate Hadoop tasks. When calling Hadoop, I need to be able to pass it the path to some jars that my code depends on so that Hadoop can send that de

Answer 1

You can also create a dedicated configuration for an artifact, to keep it clean; and use asPath if the fact that it can potentially return several locations works well for your use case (happens if it resolves same jar in several locations):

configurations {
  solr
}

dependencies {
  solr 'org.apache.solr:solr-solrj:3.5.0'
}

task findSolrJars() {
  println configurations.solr.asPath
}

To avoid copy-paste, in case you as well need that jar in compile configuration, you may add this dedicated configuration into compile one, like:

dependencies {
  solr 'org.apache.solr:solr-solrj:3.5.0'
  compile configurations.solr.dependencies
}