Gradle - Get the MavenDeployer URL - maven

Question

I am currently trying to get the URL of the Maven Deployer in a task, but it is failing. I am able to get the Maven Deployer itself, but I apparently cannot create an object of type RemoteRepository when calling the method mavenDeployer.getRepository().
Here is the build.gradle file:
uploadArchives {
repositories {
mavenDeployer {
repository(url: "file:///path/to/maven/repo/")
}
}
}
In my Task :
Upload uploadArchives = project.getTasks().withType(Upload.class)
.findByName(BasePlugin.UPLOAD_ARCHIVES_TASK_NAME);
for(ArtifactRepository repo : uploadArchives.getRepositories()) {
if (repo instanceof MavenDeployer) {
MavenDeployer mavenDeployer = (MavenDeployer) repo;
System.out.println(repo) //Returns org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.RemoteRepository
RemoteRepository l = (RemoteRepository) mavenDeployer.getRepository() // Crashes here
}
}
It displays:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':myTask'.
> org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/RemoteRepository
The stacktrace ends by:
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.RemoteRepository
Apparently, Gradle cannot find the class org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.RemoteRepository, even after I imported it successfully. If I comment out the line that creates the class MavenDeployer, it works fine.
Is there a way to fix this? If not, is there another way to get the repository URL of the Maven Deployer?

Answer 1

The build script classloader does not expose RemoteRepository. but you should be able to resolve the information thanks for groovys ducktyping:
task printDeployerUrl << {
tasks.withType(Upload) { uploadTask ->
for(ArtifactRepository repo : uploadArchives.getRepositories()) {
if (repo instanceof MavenDeployer) {
MavenDeployer mavenDeployer = (MavenDeployer) repo;
System.out.println(repo.repository.url)
}
}
}
}