Variable describing where Gradle put dependency JARs

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Hi all,

Is there a variable, usable in build.gradle, which gives access to where Gradle put dependency JARs ?

For instance:

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.mycompany.mypackage:mydependency:1.0.0'
}

Is there a variable available to access directly to mydependency-1.0.0.jar?

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There is not a variable. Your only way to determine where the file is, is to resolve the dependency.

For instance configuration.runtimeClasspath.resolve().find { it.name == 'mydependency-1,0,0.jar'} will resolve that configuration and then return you the loclation of that file. Becasue of this you should only do this during execution time and not configuration time.

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If you don’t want to resolve everything, but just the one, you could add the single dependency into a detached configuration and resolve that instead.