This plugin resolves your project dependency artifacts (jar, javadoc, pom, etc.), including transitive ones, and stores them alongside your code. This way you can always build your project without having to fetch dependencies from remote servers.

Check out the code, run ./gradlew build and fetch the resulting jar from build/libs/offline-dependencies-plugin-0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar.

To use the plugin, add it as a buildscript dependency:

buildscript {
  dependencies {
    classpath files("../your/path/to/offline-dependencies-plugin-0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar")
  }
}

Then apply it to your project:

apply plugin: 'offline-dependencies'

The plugin creates a local maven repository where all dependency artifacts will be stored for offline use. To use this repository, add the following:

repositories {
  maven {
    url offlineRepositoryRoot
  }
}

The offlineRepositoryRoot property is set by the plugin and defaults to ${project.projectDir}/offline-repository. This property is a standard groovy property and may be changed to whatever path suits your needs. Typically this location will be somewhere alongside your project and commited to version control.

Next, configure the repositories you want do fetch dependencies from:

offlineDependencies {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }
}

Currently the plugin only exposes a single task:

> ./gradlew updateOfflineRepository

Downloads dependency artifacts and stores them locally

The offline-dependencies Plugin defines the following properties which may be configured within the offlineDependencies section:

• includeSources: Download sources (default is true)
• includeJavadocs: Download javadocs (default is true)
• includePoms: Download pom.xml artifacts (default is true)
• includeIvyXmls: Download ivy.xml artifacts (default is true)
• includeBuildscriptDependencies: Download dependencies defined in the buildscript section (default is true). Buildscript dependencies need special handling. See Handling Buildscript Dependencies below for details
• configurations: Project confgurations for which dependency artifacts should be downloaded (defaults to all project configurations)
• buildScriptConfigurations: Buildscript configurations for which dependency artifacts should be downloaded (defaults to all buildscript configurations)

The are two issues when it comes to buildscript dependencies. Both stem from the fact that gradle applies the offline-dependencies plugin only after the buildscript block has been evaluated.

The first issue is that you can not use the default offlineRepositoryRoot property within a buildscript block, the reason being that the offline-dependencies plugin hasn't had a chance to set the property by itself yet.

You can get around that limitation by setting the property yourself, e.g. by supplying it as a command line parameter:

./gradlew updateOfflineRepository -PofflineRepositoryRoot=./offline-repository

Alternatively you can create an entry for this property in your project's gradle.properties file.

The second issue is that gradle won't be able to resolve your buildscript dependencies when running the updateOfflineRepository task for the first time. You can solve this issue by specifying the offline repository alongside the remote repositories, e.g.

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url offlineRepositoryRoot
    }
    mavenCentral()
    jcenter()
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath files("../your/path/to/offline-dependencies-plugin-0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar")
    classpath "some.other.buildscript:dependency:1.0.0"
  }
}

Just make sure that the offlineRepositoryRoot repository is first in the list.

apply plugin: 'offline-dependencies'
apply plugin: 'java'

buildscript {
  dependencies {
    classpath files("../your/path/to/offline-dependencies-plugin-0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar")
  }
}

repositories {
  maven {
    url offlineRepositoryRoot
  }
}

offlineDependencies {
  repositories {
    ivy {
      url 'http://archiecobbs.github.io/ivyroundup/repo/modules/'
      layout 'pattern', {
        artifact '[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/packager.xml'
        ivy '[organisation]/[module]/[revision]/ivy.xml'
      }
    }
    mavenCentral()
  }

  includeSources = true
  includeJavadocs = true
  includePoms = true
  includeIvyXmls = true
  includeBuildscriptDependencies = false
  
  configurations 'compile', 'debug'
  buildScriptConfigurations 'classpath'
}

version = '1.0'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8

dependencies {
  compile 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.7.1'
  compile 'com.google.guava:guava:19.0'
}