[gradle-user] taskdef for jasperreport

[soondee_chua]

Hi

Anybody tried defining custom ant task in gradle for compiling jasper 
template into .jasper file. I tried the following but has not been 
successful.

repositories {
        mavenCentral()
}

configurations {
        jasperreports
}

dependencies {
        jasperreports 'net.sf.jasperreports:jasperreports:3.7.0',
                'commons-digester:commons-digester:2.0',
                'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:1.7.4'
}

ant.taskdef(name:'jrc', 
classname:'net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask',
        classpath:project.configurations.jasperreports.asPath
)

task compileJasper << {
        ant.mkdir(dir:'jrxml')
        ant.mkdir(dir:'jasper')
        ant.copy(todir:'jrxml') {
                ant.fileset(dir:'resources/templates') {
                        include(name:'**/*.jrxml')
                }
        }
        ant.jrc(srcdir:'jrxml', destdir:'jasper', 
compiler:'net.sf.jasperreports.compilers.JRGroovyCompiler')
}

Been getting thrown exception from gradle on not able to resolve 
jasperreport classes. But when I copied the dependencies into 
{GRADLE_HOME}\lib folder, the task execute properly. Any ideas anybody?

Thanks

Soon Dee