What's the best way to execute downloaded dependencies?

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I have a grammar for which I want to generate a Scanner and a Parser for that grammar. To do so, I use beaver-cc and jflex. Both are available
in maven central (beaver-cc, jflex).

Now I want to write a task to execute both in the beginning to create the Scanner and the Parser.

Of course I could now find the downloaded dependencies and hard code their paths in the task to execute them. But that seems quite unclean to me. Is there a clean solution to find the local path of a special dependency and execute it?

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You can easily get the path of dependencies, using Configuration#getAsPath().

https://docs.gradle.org/current/javadoc/org/gradle/api/artifacts/Configuration.html

In order to execute java process, Exec type task will help you.

https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.Exec.html

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Thanks for the quick reply. I will try that :slight_smile: