Dumping out compiler arguments

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I need to dump out the Java compiler arguments to a file when I build a project. I found a working solution for this but it’s kind of ugly and uses internal Gradle APIs. I am using Gradle 2.7.

Is there a simpler and/or more robust way to dump the Java compiler arguments than the below solution?

import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.CleaningJavaCompiler
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.DefaultJavaCompileSpec
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.DefaultJavaCompileSpecFactory
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.JavaCompilerArgumentsBuilder
import org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.JavaCompileSpec
import org.gradle.jvm.internal.toolchain.JavaToolChainInternal

project.tasks.withType(JavaCompile, { task -> task.doLast {
        def spec = createSpec(task)
        List<String> compilerArgs = new JavaCompilerArgumentsBuilder(spec).includeLauncherOptions(true).includeSourceFiles(true).build();
        def argfile = file("compiler-args-${name}")
        argfile.withWriter { writer ->
                for (arg in compilerArgs) {
                        writer.write(arg)
                        writer.write('\n')
                }
        }
    println "Wrote compiler arguments to ${argfile}"
}})

CleaningJavaCompiler createCompiler(JavaCompileSpec spec) {
    Compiler<JavaCompileSpec> javaCompiler = CompilerUtil.castCompiler(((JavaToolChainInternal) getToolChain()).select(getPlatform()).newCompiler(spec.getClass()));
    return new CleaningJavaCompiler(javaCompiler, getAntBuilderFactory(), getOutputs());
}

DefaultJavaCompileSpec createSpec(task) {
    DefaultJavaCompileSpec spec = new DefaultJavaCompileSpecFactory(task.options).create();
    spec.setSource(task.getSource());
    spec.setDestinationDir(task.getDestinationDir());
    spec.setWorkingDir(project.projectDir);
    spec.setTempDir(task.getTemporaryDir());
    spec.setClasspath(task.getClasspath());
    spec.setDependencyCacheDir(task.getDependencyCacheDir());
    spec.setTargetCompatibility(task.getTargetCompatibility());
    spec.setSourceCompatibility(task.getSourceCompatibility());
    spec.setCompileOptions(task.options);
    return spec;
}