Download file gradle

Peter Niederwieser Peter Niederwieser k 18 18 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I would appreciate an example I'm a total gradle newbie! CMPS why you no groovy? RaGe my current solution is using groovy and it works fine, but I wanted one using repository to benefit from the caching system.

CMPS Ah, caching! Posted an answer below. Matthias M Matthias M 9, 11 11 gold badges 71 71 silver badges 94 94 bronze badges. What I did not understand was that it never worked. Even the println code in doLast did not work. However, this code works in the gradle configuration phase. Because it configures the task. The execution still is done during execution phase. Changing the configuration during the execution phase should not be done actually and in your case the execution phase would not be executed at all, as the task thinks there is nothing to copy, so the task execution is skipped.

This works with Gradle 5 tested with 5. You can use the other methods from other answers to unzip the file if necessary. Johny Johny 6 6 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Also works in gradle 4. In case someone needs it. Craig Craig 1, 3 3 gold badges 17 17 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges. Doesn't work. Gradle 7.

Daniel Alder Daniel Alder 4, 1 1 gold badge 42 42 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Taking into account the rich features provided by this app builder, Gradle is definitely worth looking into. We haven't had any trouble getting it up and running on Windows 10 in our tests using the latest JRE. What's new in Gradle 7. Gradle was reviewed by Elena Opris. It displays progress information just as Gradle does when it retrieves an artifact from a repository.

The plugin has been successfully tested with Gradle 2. It should work with newer versions as well. After you have applied the plugin configuration see above , you can use the Download task as follows:. By default, the plugin always performs a download even if the destination file already exists. If you want to prevent files from being downloaded again, use the overwrite flag see description below.

As an alternative to the Download task, you may also use the download extension to retrieve a file anywhere in your build script:. If you need to run the plugin with Gradle 1. Note that this feature depends on the server and whether it supports the If-Modified-Since request header and provides a Last-Modified timestamp in its response.

Please note that you have to specify a directory as destination if you download multiple files. Otherwise, the plugin will fail. If you want to download all files from a directory and the server provides a simple directory listing, you can use the following code:. Please have a look at the examples directory for more code samples. You can also read my blog post about common recipes for gradle-download-task.

You may provide Groovy Closures to the src and dest properties to calculate their value at runtime. The plugin also provides a Verify task that can be used to check the integrity of a downloaded file by calculating its checksum and comparing it to a pre-defined value.

The task succeeds if the file's checksum equals the given value and fails if it doesn't. You can configure a proxy server by setting standard JVM system properties. The plugin uses the same system properties as Gradle.