In order to simplify dependency-scoped configurations and offer backwards compatibility prior to Gradle 8.4. check out createRoleFocusedConfigurations.

Adding configurations to tasks is a not uncommon situation. In order to help plugin authors have a more flexible way, so utilities have been added to lazy-resolve items to project configurations. Grolifant offers a method in asConfiguration to resolve a single item to a configuration. It can be provided with an existing configuration or anything resolvable to a string using stringize. If the configurations do not exist at the time they are evaluated an exception will be thrown. There is also a version that takes a collection of objects and converts them a list of configurations.