How do I best define dependencies as "provided"?

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1

This is what I’m doing to be able to have the concept of “provided scope” dependencies in Gradle (i.e. dependencies not included in release artifacts). Is there a better way?

configurations {
        provided
        compile.extendsFrom provided
}
2

The corresponding JIRA issue also suggests:

configurations {
    provided
}
  sourceSets {
    main { compileClasspath += configurations.provided }
}
  dependencies {
    provided '...'
}
3

I too had this question. With gradle milestone 3, the solution proposed in @evgenyg’s linked JIRA issue didn’t work for me. However, the solution you posed in your question DOES work for me.

Here’s a sample… if you run the list task, you should see commons-lang printed. However, if you comment out the configurations block and uncomment what’s currently commented, nothing gets printed.

apply plugin: ‘java’

/*

configurations {

provided }

sourceSets {

main { compileClasspath += configurations.provided } }

*/

/* */ configurations {

provided

compile.extendsFrom provided }

repositories {

mavenCentral() //add central maven repo to your buildfile }

dependencies {

provided “commons-lang:commons-lang:2.3” }

task list(dependsOn: configurations.testRuntime) << {

println “classpath = ${configurations.testRuntime.collect {File file -> file.name}}” }

4

@Doug

IIRC with this method you need to remember to manage the dependencies to then exclude provided when it comes to building a war file.

5

I’m going to mark this one as answered, even though it’s still a workaround right now. If you are interested in this issue then you should follow this forum entry and GRADLE-784.

There are some longer term plans to address this. In short, the concept of a provided set of dependencies is a a characteristic of how something is used and not how it is built. At some point we’ll start modelling this kind of thing and that’s where this logic will sit.

6

I use the propdeps-plugin for provided scope. They just released v0.0.7 which is compatible with Gradle 2.0.