What if I know the name of the dependency I want in my Gradle config, but I don't know it's group or version? How can I cheat by guess-matching?

The basic structure of a dependency declaration in Gradle is GROUP:NAME:VERSION. Is there a way to pull a list of best matches from, say, Maven or Bintray, based on just the name of the dependency? e.g. I'd like to add hadoop to my project, but I don't know how to spell the group it belongs to, or what version to target.

I did not use gradle but when I face this situation with maven, I usually search for the latest version of the dependency on mvnrepository.com

Hope that help

I also do that a lot... it's a bit odd I think. Is there a more "intelligent" way?

I think you don't need anything else. As far as I know, Gradle is only a build system, but in its heart it uses Maven Repositories (and probably others as well, but again, I'm not so experienced).

Thank you @lorthirk Turns out that group and version in the vector declaration are optional. I got this from the book "Gradle - Beyond the Basics" by Tim Berglund (on page 51).

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