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Depends on where and how you use it. `asPath` is on `FileCollection`. So if you need it in a task action you could for example have a configurable file collection as input files and then in that use `asPath`. If you need it right away at configuration time as String, you could just use `.files` to make the files be present first. Heavily depends on the details.

it's currently used like this: <https://github.com/nordic-institute/X-Road/blob/14478f666a6a98b998f9e1dfa236b561aa3a6270/src/serverconf/build.gradle#L39>

Which currently fails if the project referred to by <https://github.com/nordic-institute/X-Road/blob/14478f666a6a98b998f9e1dfa236b561aa3a6270/src/serverconf/build.gradle#L28> was not built before.

That's the issue I want to fix: Avoid the need to build that project manually.

Yeah, well, the easy but dirty solution is to add `dependsOn(configurations.schema)`.

The cleaner solution would be to properly declare inputs and outputs if possible, so that the task also has a chance of being up to date or cacheable.