returning

null

sometimes doesn't work and Gradle blows up with cryptic error messages

so instead of using

null

, you should actually use

addAllLater

on

configuration.getDependencies()

and return a non-null

List

.

I pulled hair on this today

as for an example of spurious error: https://ge.micronaut.io/s/fsznfo7ifrzii/failure?expanded-stacktrace=WyIwLTEtMiJd&focused-exception-line=0-1-2-0#1

the "sometimes" seems to be related to using

someProvider.zip