Gradle IDEA plugin appears to shuffle the modules and libraries

[ddimitrov (Dimitar Dimitrov)]

Reported before as:

Generation of IntelliJ project files reorders dependencies

If anybody is interested in fixing this, the offending code is the design of the IdeDependenciesExtractor class - it provides the repo dependencies and local file dependencies in separate API calls, so there is no way for the IDE plugins to keep the relative ordering. To get a better idea of the issue, see the usages of dependenciesExtractor IdeaDependenciesProvider#provideFromScopeRuleMappings() P.S. Found my old post on the topic - Gradle messes up the classpath order in generated projects …

Gradle messes up the classpath order in generated projects when there are mixed dependency types

Consider the following build: apply plugin: 'java' apply plugin: 'idea' apply plugin: 'eclipse' repositories { jcenter() } dependencies { compile files('lib/foo.jar') compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.13' } task dumpClassPath(dependsOn: ['idea', 'eclipse']) { doLast { println "Gradle classpath:\n- " + configurations.compile.files*.name.join("\n- ") println "-------\n" println "IDEA classpath: \n- " + file(project.name + ".iml").readLines() …

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