Forcing a dependency still takes latest version

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1

I’m trying a few ways to force a dependency in a multiproject build, and failing. I have first level dependencies stated as

project1.gradle

compile (group: 'com.google.guava', name: 'guava', version:"${dependency_guava_version}" ){force = true}

project2.gradle

compile project(':project1') { transitive = false}

versions.gradle contains:

ext.dependency_guava_version
               = "12.0"

I have even tried custom resolution strategies(this is just 1, I have tried a few others):

dependencies.all { dep ->
        if( dep.group != "myproject" ){
            configs.resolutionStrategy.force "${dep.group}:${dep.name}:${dep.version}"
      }
    }

In the dependency tree I get ±-- myproject:project1-SNAPSHOT |

±-- com.google.guava:guava:12.0

but later on in the same output I get ±-- myproject:project2-SNAPSHOT ±-- myproject:project1-SNAPSHOT |

±-- com.google.guava:guava:12.0 -> 13.0.1

Why is it taking version 13.0.1 now? I forced the version in porject 1, so shouldn’t it always take the forced version?

2

had similar problems. Deleting cache solved it for me and clean too.

3

You just forced the version for the ‘compile’ configuration of ‘project1’. If you want to force the version for the entire build, you can use something like:

configurations.all {
 resolutionStrategy {
  force "com.google.guava:guava:12.0"
 }
 }

For details see the Gradle User Guide and the Gradle Build Language Reference (starting from the ‘Configuration’ type).

4

Cleaning the cache didn’t fix this sadly.

And Peter I did try to add it to all projects, I didn’t include enough, since my dependencies.all line is inside the confugurations.all.

configurations.all { configs ->
dependencies.all { dep ->
        if( dep.group != "myproject" ){
            configs.resolutionStrategy.force "${dep.group}:${dep.name}:${dep.version}"
      }
    }
}
5

Also, the code you posted throws an error, with Gradle 1.8

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating script.
> Could not find property 'resolutionStrategy' on configuration container.
6

I’ve fixed the syntax. If you think this is a Gradle bug, a self-contained reproducible example would help a lot.