How can I READ list of jars from a file and use it as classpath in Gradle?

Question

Let say I have a file listofjars.txt , which contain location of .jar files on my local file system

lib/jarfile1.jar
lib/jarfile2.jar

Now I want to read this file and use it during compilation of my project as classpath, how this can be done using Gradle?

Answer 1

 apply plugin: "java"; def List < String > list = new ArrayList < String > (); task readFile << { new File('jarfile.txt').eachLine { line - > list.add(line); } } dependencies() { compile files(list); } sourceSets { main { java { srcDir 'src'; } } } init { new File('jarfile.txt').eachLine { line - > if (!line.equals("")) list.add(line); }