Managing Transitive Dependencies : sl4j version conflicts in gradle with Storm 1.0.1 and elasticsearch 5.2

We are facing sl4j version conflicts in gradle with Storm 1.0.1 and elasticsearch 5.2.

We found that the ElasticSearch needs bridge log4j-to-slf4j so that we can use desired loggers. Here we are trying to use logback-classic with slf4j.

The dependencies are defined as below:

dependencies {
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.21’
compile 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-to-slf4j:2.6.2’
compile 'ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.1.10’
provided (‘org.apache.storm:storm-core:1.0.1’) {
exclude(group: ‘org.slf4j’, module: ‘slf4j-api’)
}
compile 'org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:5.2.0’
compile ‘org.elasticsearch.client:x-pack-transport:5.2.0’
}
To resolve this I tried to exclude the slf4j from storm-core and add the same later as below:

configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy {
eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails dependencyResolveDetails ->
final requestedDependency = dependencyResolveDetails.requested
if (requestedDependency.group == ‘org.slf4j’ && requestedDependency.name == ‘slf4j-api’) {
requestedDependency.setVersion “1.7.7”
}
}
}
}
But when topology is submitted we get error : SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings. SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/gauthamr05/Documents/Apps/Storm/apache-storm-1.0.1/lib/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class] SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/gauthamr05/Documents/workspace/xyz_app/build/libs/FullIndexing.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class] SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation. SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory] Exception in thread “main” java.lang.StackOverflowError at org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.LoggerRegistry.getOrCreateInnerMap(LoggerRegistry.java:140) at org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.LoggerRegistry.hasLogger(LoggerRegistry.java:154) at org.apache.logging.slf4j.SLF4JLoggerContext.getLogger(SLF4JLoggerContext.java:38) at org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory.newLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:37) at org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory.newLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:29) at org.apache.logging.log4j.spi.AbstractLoggerAdapter.getLogger(AbstractLoggerAdapter.java:47) at org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:29) at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:277)