Right way to copy contents from dependency archives?

[Peter_Niederwieser]

An idiomatic solution would look like this:

configurations {
    api
}
  dependencies {
    api 'somegroup:someArtifact:someVersion'
}
  task extractApi(type: Sync) {
    dependsOn configurations.api

    from { // use of closure defers evaluation until execution time
        configurations.api.collect { zipTree(it) }
    }
    into "$buildDir/api/"
}