How to download dependencies in gradle

Question

I have a custom compile task.

task compileSpeedTest(type: JavaCompile) {
    classpath = files('build')
    source = fileTree('src/test/java/speed')
    destinationDir = file('bin')
}

Gradle doesn't try to download dependencies before its execution. I cannot find anywhere a task name which does it to add it on list dependsOn.

Answer 1

Downloading java dependencies is possible, if you actually really need to download them into a folder.

Example:

apply plugin: 'java'

dependencies {
  runtime group: 'com.netflix.exhibitor', name: 'exhibitor-standalone', version: '1.5.2'
  runtime group: 'org.apache.zookeeper',  name: 'zookeeper', version: '3.4.6'
}

repositories { mavenCentral() }

task getDeps(type: Copy) {
  from sourceSets.main.runtimeClasspath
  into 'runtime/'
}

Download the dependencies (and their dependencies) into the folder runtime when you execute gradle getDeps.