retrieve dependency jar file from gradle api plugin

Question

So I'm making a gradle plugin from java, and one of my goal is to add more dependencies from the content of a dependency

for example in dependency A, And I know the dependency have dependency.json in the jar file. So I want to read the dependency.json and add dependencies based on the content of the file. But how can I retrieve the jar of the dependency A?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Just figured out a way to retrieve jar. Using configuration, add dependency to the configuration and use Configuration.files(Dependency...) works!