Gradle equivalent of maven-dependency-plugin

Question

My root problem is that when running \"spring-test\"-based tests for my controllers and Freemarker views I need to have all taglibs inside WEB-INF/lib folder - otherwise fre

Answer 1

Here is how I solved this problem (the same as in maven actually):

Add another configuration for dependencies:

configurations { 
    taglibs { transitive = false }
}

Add needed dependency to this configuration:

dependencies {
    ...
    taglibs "org.springframework.security:spring-security-taglibs:$springSecurityVersion"
    ...
}

Add gradle code to copy these dependencies to required folder:

task copytaglibs(type: Copy) { 
    from configurations.taglibs
    into 'src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/lib'
} 

compileTestJava {
   dependsOn copytaglibs
}

This is it.