Find latest Gradle version programatically

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I’d like to run scheduled job to test my plugin against the latest Gradle version. What would be the best way to find one?

It would be great if something like ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=latest worked.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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You can create your own latestWrapper task to do this using the Gradle version web service. Splitting the configuration out into a separate task is a good idea so you don’t have every single build needing to hit the service. The distributionUrl for the Wrapper task is the downloadUrl in the JSON response.

ext.currentVersionService = 'https://services.gradle.org/versions/current'

task configureLatestWrapper {
    doLast {
        configure(tasks.'latestWrapper') {
            distributionUrl new groovy.json.JsonSlurper().parseText(new URL(currentVersionService).text).downloadUrl
        }
    }
}

task latestWrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    dependsOn configureLatestWrapper
    group = 'wrapper'
}
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Didn’t know about https://services.gradle.org/versions/current. Thanks @jjustinic!