Is there a way to read the gradle.properties in the buildscript closure?

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I have a subproject that has a buildscript that does the following:

project.buildscript { scriptHandler ->
    // configure the repositories
    apply from: "${rootDir}/gradle/repositories.gradle", to: scriptHandler
}

the repositories.gradle file has a variable in it similiar to the following:

def contextUrl = hasProperty('contextUrl') ?
                              contextUrl :
                             defaultContextUrl

The defaultContextUrl is located in the root projects gradle.properties file. When I try to do a clean I get the following error:

No such property: defaultContextUrl for class: org.gradle.api.internal.initialization.DefaultScriptHandler
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I would like to make the variable configurable