[gradle-user] Downloading dependencies and declaring tasks

[Andrew Schetinin]

Hi,

I'm trying to use Antenna for building a WTK project with Gradle.
It worked quite fine, I defined the tasks

cBuildToolsAntenna = "${cBuildLibDir}/antenna-bin.jar"
ant {
  taskdef( name: 'wtkjad',        classname:
'de.pleumann.antenna.WtkJad',        classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
  taskdef( name: "wtkpreprocess", classname:
"de.pleumann.antenna.WtkPreprocess", classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
  taskdef( name: "wtkbuild",      classname:
"de.pleumann.antenna.WtkBuild",      classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
  taskdef( name: "wtkpackage",    classname:
"de.pleumann.antenna.WtkPackage",    classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
  taskdef( name: "wtkmakeprc",    classname:
"de.pleumann.antenna.WtkMakePrc",    classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
  taskdef( name: "wtkrun",        classname:
"de.pleumann.antenna.WtkRun",        classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
  taskdef( name: "wtkpreverify",  classname:
"de.pleumann.antenna.WtkPreverify",  classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
  taskdef( name: "wtkobfuscate",  classname:
"de.pleumann.antenna.WtkObfuscate",  classpath: cBuildToolsAntenna )
}

and used them, for example like this

  ant.wtkpreprocess( srcdir: "${cUtilsJmeCompatDir}", destdir:
"${buildDir}/${bver}preprocess",
            indent: false, symbols: "${symbols}", encoding: "utf-8" )

Now I'm trying to make the same script downloading this antenna-bin.jar from
a remote repository, and only then defining the tasks.
And I cannot find a way to download the jar file. Note that I'm not using
Java plugin, which makes most of examples useless (they usually add
dependencies to tasks and methods added by a plugin).

My "dependencies" declaration looks like the following:

dependencies {
  classpathResolvers.add( new org.apache.ivy.plugins.resolver.SshResolver()
) {
    user = 'aaaaaaaa'
    userPassword = 'bbbbbbbbbbbb'
    addArtifactPattern( uriAndPath )
  }
  // I am not sure about these two lines
  addConfiguration( "antenna" )
  antenna ":antenna-bin:1.1.0-beta"
}

And now I'm stuck - I have no idea what to do with it.
What I need now is to command Ivy to download the jar file, and use its
location when defining the tasks.
I've searched all over Gradle/Ivy docs and mailing lists, but cannot find
how to work with Ivy from Gradle directly, and all indirect methods rely on
one of ready plugins, whose I cannot use.

Please help.

Thank you in advance,

Andrew