Composite build with diamond dependencies

I have 4 projects (A, B, C and D) with a “diamond” dependency graph:

D depends on B and C
C depends on A
B depends on A

These four projects are in separate repositories at the moment and I would like to define D as a composite build so that if I have all of them cloned locally, I no longer need binary dependency to build D.

The issue I am running into is that Gradle complians:

Module version ‘group:A:0.0.2-SNAPSHOT’ is not unique in composite: can be provided by [project : C : A, project : B : A]

I think it is complianing the A referenced by B is different from the A referenced by C, although B and C do depend on the same version of A.

Am I missing anything in my setup?

Thanks.

Which version of Gradle are you using?

Could you post the contents of D’s settings.gradle?

Hi Sterling,

now you have reminded me to check the settings file so I checked all of them, and I found the problem. D’s settings.gradle is actually fine, it just has two includeBuild statements. But in B and C’s settings.gradle file, there are legacy code to manually check if A presents on disk and manipulates the project dependency accordingly.

I have removed all the extra code in B and C’s settings.gradle file (they now contains just one line for rootProject) and everything works out like magic.

Thanks for your help.

The version of Gradle is 4.0.2

Xinchao

Great, glad to hear.