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

Using following plugin:

plugins {
    id "de.undercouch.download" version "3.4.3"
}

For a task which has the purpose of only downloading

task downloadFile(type: Download) {
    src DownloadURL
    dest destDir
}

For including download option into your task:

download {
    src DownloadURL
    dest destDir
}

For including download option with multiple downloads into your task:

task downloadFromURLs(){
    download {
        src ([
               DownloadURL1,
               DownloadURL2,
               DownloadURL3
        ])
        dest destDir
    }
}

Hope it helped :)