# Gradle + Eclipse: How to not export JARs that are dependencies of a dependency?

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**Created:** [February 25, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590 "2014-02-25T20:57:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/1 "2014-02-25T20:57:00Z")

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In my ‘build.gradle’ file I have the following:

```gradle
...
dependencies {
  ...
  testCompile (group: 'org.uncommons', name: 'reportng', version: '1.1.2') { exclude group: 'org.testng', module: 'testng' }
  ...
}
...

```

reportng needs ‘velocity-1.4.jar’ and ‘velocity-dep-1.4.jar’, and actually the above testCompile dependency causes these 2 JARs to be fetched and to be placed into the Eclipse’s .classpath file, as “exported” (that is, their checkbox is checked).

The fact that these 2 JARs get set as exported is a problem. I need them to still be fetched but not to be exported.

From the Gradle doc I understand that this is done by using ‘noExportConfigurations’ as per the example:

```gradle
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
  configurations {
  provided
  someBoringConfig
}
  eclipse {
    classpath {
      //if you don't want some classpath entries 'exported' in Eclipse
    noExportConfigurations += configurations.provided
  }
}

```

My problem is that I don’t have a ‘configurations {}’ section, and while I can certainly add one, I don’t know what to put in it in order to exclude from export not the whole reportng but just two of the JARs that come with it.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Niederwieser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/2 "2014-02-26T00:27:00Z")

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You’ll probably want something like:

```gradle
configurations {
    noExport
}
  dependencies {
    // replace with correct values
    noExport "foo:velocity:1.4"
     noExport "foo:velocity-dep:1.4"
}
  eclipse {
    classpath {
        noExportConfigurations += configurations.noExport
    }
}

```

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/3 "2014-03-03T13:12:00Z")

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Thanks. I didn’t manage to make it work yet but now I have some clues about where my problem lies, although I don’t know the cause - and I should have mentioned in my first post that I use Gradle 1.6 (in Eclipse Kepler SR1 on Windows 8.1, with JRE 1.7.0\_51-b13).

Please see the 3 points under ‘classpath’ in the following code I tested:

```gradle
configurations {
    noExport
}
dependencies {
    noExport "velocity:velocity:1.4"
     noExport "velocity:velocity-dep:1.4"
}
eclipse {
    classpath {
          // 1) This does nothing and causes no errors when I uncomment it:
        // noExportConfigurations += configurations.noExport
          // 2) As expected, this excludes the two Velocity 1.4 JARs from the classpath when I uncomment it:
        // minusConfigurations += configurations.noExport
          // 3) As expected, this errors with
        //
 "Could not find property 'showmesomeerrConfigurations'
        //
 on org.gradle.plugins.ide.eclipse.model.EclipseClasspath_Decorated@60ea2e4d."
        // when I uncomment it:
        // showmesomeerrConfigurations += configurations.noExport
    }
}

```

Point 1 is my problem: I don’t know why ‘noExportConfigurations’ has no effect for me, nor does it cause any error.

I thought I made some mistake in defining my ‘noExport’ configuration, but point 2 clearly disproves this.

Then I thought perhaps ‘noExportConfigurations’ was introduced in a later Gradle version, so it’s not recognized by my Gradle 1.6 and I see no errors because maybe Gradle simply ignores properties which it does not recognize, but point 3 seems to disprove this.

I couldn’t find any doc about ‘noExportConfigurations’ property that might explain what I’m doing wrong. I did research this problem as much as I could but my only hypothesis so far is that I might have hit [this](http://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-2114) , and in the post linked from there I could not extract any possible workaround (plus I’m not 100% sure it’s the same issue), so I’m at a loss.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Niederwieser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/4 "2014-03-03T13:16:00Z")

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How are you integrating with Eclipse? It’s possible that ‘noExportConfigurations’ only has an effect when generating Eclipse files with ‘gradle eclipse’, but not when using the STS plugin.

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/5 "2014-03-03T13:22:00Z")

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When I say that noExportConfiguration “does nothing” I mean that when I run the script the 2 Velocity JARs still get set as exported in the classpath, even if I manually set them as not exported before running the script.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Niederwieser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/6 "2014-03-03T13:23:00Z")

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The ‘.classpath’ file generated via ‘gradle eclipse’?

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/7 "2014-03-03T13:41:00Z")

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Yes but generated via ‘gradlew.bat eclipse’

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/8 "2014-03-03T13:41:00Z")

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I actually don’t use the STS plugin, I created and run an “External Tool Configuration” in Eclipse where I have Main / Location set to ‘${workspace\_loc:/MyJavaProject/gradlew.bat}’, Working Directory set to ‘${workspace\_loc:/MyJavaProject}’, Arguments set to ‘${string\_prompt}’ and when I run this and the prompt appears I enter ‘eclipse’ into it.

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/9 "2014-03-03T13:49:00Z")

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I just verified that if I run the script not from Eclipse as described above but with ‘gradlew.bat eclipse’ from command prompt it makes no difference.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Niederwieser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 1:58pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/10 "2014-03-03T13:58:00Z")

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Would you be able to provide a small self-contained sample build script that allows to reproduce the problem?

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 2:03pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/11 "2014-03-03T14:03:00Z")

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I will try to do so. In the meantime thanks a lot for the assistance 🙂

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/12 "2014-03-03T15:08:00Z")

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The following ‘build.gradle’ demonstrates the problem - at least on my machine:

```gradle
// Project settings
project.ext {
   distPath = "$buildDir/dist"
}
  apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin:'application'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
  mainClassName = 'main.Main'
  task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
      gradleVersion = '1.6'
}
  tasks.withType(Compile) {
   options.encoding = 'UTF-8'
}
  repositories {
   mavenCentral()
    maven
  {
  url 'https://nexus.codehaus.org/content/groups/snapshots-group/'
 }
 maven
  {
  url 'http://nexus.devlab722.net/nexus/content/repositories/releases/'
 }
 maven
  {
  url 'http://repo.gradle.org/gradle/plugins-snapshots/'
 }
 maven
  {
  url 'https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging/'
 }
 maven
 {
  url 'http://savant.inversoft.org/'
 }
}
  configurations {
      noExport
}
  dependencies {
   testCompile (group: 'org.uncommons', name: 'reportng', version: '1.1.2')
   noExport "velocity:velocity:1.4"
}
  eclipse {
      classpath {
          // This does nothing and causes no errors when I uncomment it:
        noExportConfigurations += configurations.noExport
          // As expected, this excludes the two Velocity 1.4 JARs from the classpath when I uncomment it:
        // minusConfigurations += configurations.noExport
          // As expected, this errors with
        //
 "Could not find property 'showmesomeerrConfigurations'
        //
 on org.gradle.plugins.ide.eclipse.model.EclipseClasspath_Decorated@60ea2e4d."
        // when I uncomment it:
        // showmesomeerrConfigurations += configurations.noExport
    }
}
  // Build deployment dir from all dependencies and compiled jars
task libs(mustRunAfter: 'build', type: Sync) {
    from jar.archivePath
 from jar.destinationDir
 from configurations.runtime
 from jar.destinationDir
 from project.configurations.runtime.allArtifacts*.file
 into distPath
}
  //We make the distribution available after the build
jar.doLast() {
   println ':libs TestGradleNoExport'
 tasks.libs.execute()
}

```

In case it matters, this is my ‘/TestGradleNoExport/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties’:

```gradle
#Tue May 28 15:33:56 CEST 2013
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=http\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-1.6-bin.zip

```

I tested this by creating a minimal Eclipse project which I’ll be glad to zip and send or attach somewhere if the above doesn’t show the problem on other machines.

I run this ‘build.gradle’ in the exact ways mentioned in the previous posts; when I do, the two Velocity 1.4 JARs always become exported, even if I set them as non-exported before running this.

I double-checked that if I use ‘minusConfigurations’ instead of ‘noExportConfigurations’, with no other changes whatsoever, it does have the effect that the 2 Velocity JARs do not appear at all in the classpath.

Below is the console output I get when I run this script with args ‘eclipse --info’:

```gradle
Starting Build
Settings evaluated using empty settings script.
Projects loaded. Root project using build file 'D:\TestGradleNoExport\build.gradle'.
Included projects: [root project 'TestGradleNoExport']
Evaluating root project 'TestGradleNoExport' using build file 'D:\TestGradleNoExport\build.gradle'.
All projects evaluated.
Selected primary task 'eclipse'
Tasks to be executed: [task ':eclipseClasspath', task ':eclipseJdt', task ':eclipseProject', task ':eclipse']
:eclipseClasspath
Executing task ':eclipseClasspath' due to:
  Task.upToDateWhen is false.
:eclipseJdt
Executing task ':eclipseJdt' due to:
  Task.upToDateWhen is false.
:eclipseProject
Executing task ':eclipseProject' due to:
  Task.upToDateWhen is false.
:eclipse
Skipping task ':eclipse' as it has no actions.
  BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  Total time: 3.803 secs

```

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/13 "2014-03-03T15:20:00Z")

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It smells more and more like that GRADLE-2114, although I cannot back this with any hard fact.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Niederwieser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/14 "2014-03-03T15:44:00Z")

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It’s not GRADLE-2114. I just realized that the docs say that ‘noExportConfigurations’ is expected to be a subset of ‘plusConfigurations’. Given that, I’m not sure how it could be leveraged to solve your problem. One alternative is to use one of the provided hooks to alter the ‘.classpath’ file more directly.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Niederwieser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2014, 3:49pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/15 "2014-03-03T15:49:00Z")

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PS: ‘mustRunAfter’ was only introduced in a Gradle version later than 1.6, and it needs to go into the body of the task declaration. Also, ‘mustRunAfter build’ is probably not what you really want/need.

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**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 9:36am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/16 "2014-03-04T09:36:00Z")

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Whoops. Thanks for the several pointers. I wonder why that ‘mustRunAfter’ never causes errors here. I’m quite sure we are using Gradle 1.6 but I will see if it’s possible to make Gradle print the version when it runs. I will see if I can still use ‘noExportConfigurations’ as a subset of ‘plusConfigurations’ to achieve my goal otherwise I will use your suggested alternative.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Niederwieser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9f8e36/32.png) [@Peter\_Niederwieser](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Peter_Niederwieser)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 9:38am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/17 "2014-03-04T09:38:00Z")

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Run ‘gradle -v’. In earlier Gradle versions, Gradle didn’t complain about unknown arguments in a task’s “header”.

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/18 "2014-03-04T09:42:00Z")

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When I run the above sample script with args ‘eclipse --version’ it shows 1.6, so I guess that using ‘mustRunAfter’ like that is not supposed to generate errors even though was introduced in a later version than 1.6.

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/19 "2014-03-04T09:43:00Z")

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Got it. ‘gradle -v’ :

```gradle
------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 1.6
------------------------------------------------------------
  Gradle build time: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 9:12:14 AM UTC
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.4 compiled on May 22 2012
Ivy: 2.2.0
JVM: 1.7.0_21 (Oracle Corporation 23.21-b01)

```

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**Author:** ![SantiBailors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@SantiBailors](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/SantiBailors)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/gradle-eclipse-how-to-not-export-jars-that-are-dependencies-of-a-dependency/7590/20 "2014-03-04T15:26:00Z")

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JFI, this works for me:

```gradle
eclipse {
    classpath {
        file {
            whenMerged { classpath ->
                classpath.entries.findAll { entry -> entry.path ==~ /.*\/velocity-1\.4\.jar$/ || entry.path ==~ /.*\/velocity-dep-1\.4\.jar$/ }*.exported = false
            }
        }
    }
}

```

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