Gradle: Make a 3rd party jar available to local gradle repository

Question

Hi,

currently, I'm testing Gradle as an alternative to Maven. In my projects, there are some 3rd party jars, which aren't available in any (Maven) repositories. My problem is now, how could I manage it to install these jars into my local .gradle repository. (If it's possible, I don't want to use the local Maven repository, because Gradle should run independently.) At the moment, I get a lot of exceptions because of missing jars. In Maven, it's quite simple by running the install command. However, my Google search for something similar to the Maven install command wasn't successful. Has anybody an idea?

Thanks a million in advance.

Answer 1

Maybe I'm missing something from my reading of your question, assuming your gradle repo is of the flatDir type, you should be able to copy the files there in the form myjar-1.0.jar and resolve them as myjar of version 1.0.

Not sure why should it be necessary for Gradle to run maven in order to access a local maven repository. You can just define the maven repos and it should resolve dependencies. You can use gradle upload to push the jars local or remote maven repos if you need to. In that case, it will execute maven.

Answer 2

I think something like this should work:

dependencies {
  files('yourfile.jar')
}

Does it work for you?

Answer 3

you can include your file system JAR dependencies as:

dependencies {
    runtime files('libs/a.jar', 'libs/b.jar')
    runtime fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')
}

you may change runtime for compile/testCompile/etc..