how to download external files in gradle?

Question

I have a gradle project which requires some data files available somewhere on the internet using http. The goal is that this immutable remote file is pulled once upon first

Answer 1

Try like that:

plugins {
    id "de.undercouch.download" version "1.2"
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'de.undercouch.download'

import de.undercouch.gradle.tasks.download.Download

task downloadFile(type: Download) {
    src 'http://localhost:8081/example/test-jar-test_1.jar'
    dest 'localDir'
}

You can check more here: https://github.com/michel-kraemer/gradle-download-task

For me works fine..