[gradle-user] Getting dependency file paths

[Alessandro Novarini]

Hello list,

This is my first message here, sorry if my question is going to be naive.

I'm trying to get the dependencies of a project so that I can copy them in
my package; the test I'm running now is just to print their path.

What I did is the following:

apply plugin: 'java'
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
configurations {
    compile
}
dependencies {
    compile group: 'commons-digester', name: 'commons-digester', version:
'2.1', transitive: true
}
task print_dependencies(dependsOn: assemble) {
    configurations.compile.files.each { file ->
        println "$file.name -> $file.path"
    }
}


The question is: how I can get rid of the "configurations" section? I mean,
isn't it a sort of duplication with the dependencies section?
I tried to use dependencies.compile.files.each but gradle told me that the
compile property wasn't found.

Any advice? Is there a better method to do it?

Thank you in advance
Ale