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javagradledependency-management
igor
igor

Reputation: 749

How to download Gradle dependency from java code?

My Java application needs to copy artifacts from Artifactory to AWS S3 temp bucket on demand (application group, name and version will be passed as parameters at runtime). The simplest way would be constructing URL and downloading files directly from Artifactory, but application should support 'latest.integration' and 'latest.relase' versions. So I want to add Gradle binaries to the classpath and use it to download dependencies.

Google results overflown with questions about dependency management using build.gradle.

So far I saw https://discuss.gradle.org/t/execute-gradle-task-from-java-code/21859/4 but looks like it also relies on preexisting build.gradle file.

So the question is: is there any way to use Gradle API from Java application to download certain lib without generating build.gradle file?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 318

Answers (1)

cjstehno
cjstehno

Reputation: 13984

You should be able to use Ivy (http://ant.apache.org/ivy/) either as is or as a library itself to accomplish what you need, possibly with a bit of additional code.

(answer created from my comments)

Upvotes: 1

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