HashCode hash = checksumService.hash(src, algorithm);
        String formattedHashString = hash.toString();
        try {
            return formattedHashString.getBytes("US-ASCII");
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw UncheckedException.throwAsUncheckedException(e);
        }
    }

    public List<String> getIvyPatterns() {

                    for(File f: getMyInputs().files) {
                        outputContent += f.canonicalPath + "\\n"
                    }
                    Files.write(outputFile.toPath(), outputContent.getBytes())
                }
            }

            tasks.register("myTask", MyTask.class) {
                it.getInputCount().set(project.providers.systemProperty("generateInputs").map { Integer.parseInt(it) })

      throw closer.rethrow(e);
    } finally {
      closer.close();
    }
  }

  private static Manifest manifest(String content) throws IOException {
    InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(content.getBytes(US_ASCII));
    Manifest manifest = new Manifest();
    manifest.read(in);
    return manifest;
  }

  private static File fullpath(String path) {
    return new File(new File(path).toURI());
  }

        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.1.0' // used in subproject
    }
}

tasks.register('encode') {
    doLast {
        def byte[] encodedString = new Base64().encode('hello world\n'.getBytes())
        println new String(encodedString)
    }
}
----

And you can apply the globally declared dependencies in the subproject that needs it:

[source,subproject/build.gradle]
----
plugins {

	a.output = []byte{}
	return false
}

func showStdout(b *Builder, c cache.Cache, a *Action, key string) error {
	actionID := a.actionID

	stdout, stdoutEntry, err := cache.GetBytes(c, cache.Subkey(actionID, key))
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if len(stdout) > 0 {
		sh := b.Shell(a)
		if cfg.BuildX || cfg.BuildN {

		b.startBytes = memStats.TotalAlloc
		b.start = highPrecisionTimeNow()
	}
	b.duration = 0
	b.netAllocs = 0
	b.netBytes = 0
}

// SetBytes records the number of bytes processed in a single operation.
// If this is called, the benchmark will report ns/op and MB/s.
func (b *B) SetBytes(n int64) { b.bytes = n }

// ReportAllocs enables malloc statistics for this benchmark.

}

func BenchmarkPutUint16(b *testing.B) {
	b.SetBytes(2)
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		BigEndian.PutUint16(putbuf[:2], uint16(i))
	}
}

func BenchmarkAppendUint16(b *testing.B) {
	b.SetBytes(2)
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {
		putbuf = BigEndian.AppendUint16(putbuf[:0], uint16(i))
	}
}

func BenchmarkPutUint32(b *testing.B) {
	b.SetBytes(4)
	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {

	Q, err := c.pointFromAffine(pub.X, pub.Y)
	if err != nil {
		return false
	}

	// SEC 1, Version 2.0, Section 4.1.4

	r, err := bigmod.NewNat().SetBytes(rBytes, c.N)
	if err != nil || r.IsZero() == 1 {
		return false
	}
	s, err := bigmod.NewNat().SetBytes(sBytes, c.N)
	if err != nil || s.IsZero() == 1 {
		return false
	}

	e := bigmod.NewNat()
	hashToNat(c, e, hash)

	// w = s⁻¹

				defer timeout(60 * time.Second)()
				ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
				defer cancel()
				b.ReportAllocs()
				b.SetBytes(int64(len(payload) * 2))
				b.ResetTimer()
				t := time.Now()
				var ops int64
				var lat int64
				b.SetParallelism(par)
				b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {

}

// Set sets v = a, and returns v.
func (v *Element) Set(a *Element) *Element {
	*v = *a
	return v
}

// SetBytes sets v to x, where x is a 32-byte little-endian encoding. If x is
// not of the right length, SetBytes returns nil and an error, and the
// receiver is unchanged.
//
// Consistent with RFC 7748, the most significant bit (the high bit of the