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

I needed lombok.jar as a java build flag to gwt builds this worked great !

configurations { 
 lombok
}
dependencies {
  lombok 'org.projectlombok:lombok+'
} 
ext {
   lombok = configurations.lombok.asPath
}

compileGwt {
  jvmArgs "-javaagent:${lombok}=ECJ"
}

I was surprised that the resolution worked early enough in the configuraiton phase, but it does.