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What do you mean by `module.json`?
Gradle Module Metadata file?
If yes, it's the same as with `pom.xml`.
Latter is in the end `artifact-version.pom`, former `artifact-version.module`.
All projects deployed with a new enough Gradle version have them on Maven Central.

yeah sorry, I'm not using maven-publish to do the actual publish

because i need to sign using another machine

gotcha I can work with `artifact-version.module`

Maybe just publish to a local directory then, then you have the files exaclty like you need them?

ah I was doing a custom copy task to avoid the deep directory structure

and extracting files from the publication

Just have the publish task that publishes to a local directory and then a copy task that copies from there and flattens out the files

Well, do it like you want, just I would do it like that, because then I know the publish plugin did its work, whatever that may be.

Without the need to manually replicate the work

I guess just a followup, what's the right way to query the output directory of the specific local publish task (without reconstructing it manually)?

It seems to also generate the maven-metadata.xml at the parent level

If you define a local repository, you also define the path, so you should know it.
And yes, it generates the proper Maven repo metadata file, just exclude that from your copy task.

oh just flatten from the root and exclude

I believe it should be possible to publish to flat dir repository directly without needing extra copy task: <https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/declaring_repositories.html#sub:flat_dir_resolver>

You don’t need a flat dir repo. Just user a normal _maven_ repo with a folder path as URL. E.g.:
```publishing {
  repositories.maven("../local-folder-repo")
}```

And because the question was about an example of a module file on Central:
<https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/jackson-databind/2.13.3/>