versionFor() - that also searches for versions online

[jschneider]

I am creating a gradle tasks that adds additional dependencies.
Everything works fine so far.

Now, I want to add the version number to the version.properties file.
"gradle build" does this. But I would like to do this automatically in my task.

I am looking for something like: versionForAndLookupOnlineIfDoesNotExist().

Any ideas how I could solve this?

[LouisCAD]

Put a dependency notation with an underscore as the version, and you'll get what you're looking for.

For example, versionFor(AndroidX.compose.compiler) just works.