</tr>
            <tr>
                <td>jdt</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>wtp</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>pathVariables</td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </section>

 * plugins {
 *     id 'war' // or 'ear' or 'java'
 *     id 'eclipse-wtp'
 * }
 *
 * eclipse {
 *
 *   //if you want parts of paths in resulting file(s) to be replaced by variables (files):
 *   pathVariables 'GRADLE_HOME': file('/best/software/gradle'), 'TOMCAT_HOME': file('../tomcat')
 *
 *   wtp {
 *     component {
 *       //for examples see docs for {@link EclipseWtpComponent}
 *     }
 *
 *     facet {

           ${mavenCentralRepository()}

           dependencies {
               runtimeOnly 'commons-io:commons-io:1.4'
               runtimeOnly files('libs/myFoo.jar')
           }

           eclipse.pathVariables MY_LIBS: file('libs')
        """

        //when
        executer.withTasks("eclipse").run()

        //then
        def classpath = getClasspath()

repositories {
    maven { url "${mavenRepo.uri}" }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'coolGroup:niceArtifact:1.0'
    implementation files('lib/dep.jar')
}

eclipse {
    pathVariables REPO_DIR: file('${mavenRepo.uri}')
    pathVariables LIB_DIR: file('lib')
    classpath.downloadJavadoc = true
}
"""

        //then
        def libraries = classpath.vars
        assert libraries.size() == 2

        runIdeaTask """
    apply plugin: "java"
    apply plugin: "idea"

    repositories {
        maven { url "${repoDir.toURI()}" }
    }

    idea {
       pathVariables("GRADLE_REPO": file("repo"))
    }

    dependencies {
        implementation "myGroup:myArtifact1:1.0"
    }
            """

        def module = parseImlFile("root")

IDEA files are absolute. If you manually define a path variable pointing to the Gradle dependency cache, IDEA will automatically replace the absolute dependency paths with this path variable. you can configure this path variable via the “`idea.pathVariables`” property, so that it can do a proper merge without creating duplicates....

        }

        //when
        runTask 'idea', '''
apply plugin: "java"
apply plugin: "idea"

configurations {
  provided
  compileClasspath.extendsFrom(provided)
}

idea {
    pathVariables CUSTOM_VARIABLE: file('customModuleContentRoot').parentFile

    module {
        name = 'foo'
        contentRoot = file('customModuleContentRoot')

        sourceDirs += file('additionalCustomSources')