Cleanest way in Gradle to get the path to a jar file in the gradle dependency cache

Question

I\'m using Gradle to help automate Hadoop tasks. When calling Hadoop, I need to be able to pass it the path to some jars that my code depends on so that Hadoop can send that de

Answer 1

Your code can be simplified a bit, for example project.configurations.compile.find { it.name.startsWith("solr-solrj-") }.