How to exclude/force httpcomponents transitive dependency of gradleApi?

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I’m building a Gradle plugin that needs a version of httpclient and httpcore that’s different than the ones pulled in by gradleApi. How can this be done? Currently, I’m running into https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21864521/java-lang-nosuchfielderror-org-apache-http-message-basiclineformatter-instance.

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You can filter out gradleApi like this:

dependencies {
  compile files(dependencies.gradleApi().resolve().findAll { !it.name.contains("http-") })
}