POM type dependency in gradle

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Hi,

Elasticsearch has made one of their recent client releases as type ‘pom’.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client</artifactId>
    <version>6.4.1</version>
    <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

Adding following dependency to gradle does not work.

compile group: 'org.elasticsearch.client', name: 'elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client', version: '6.4.1', ext: 'pom'

Looks like gradle doesn’t resolve all the dependencies when it is of type ‘pom’. Is there a way to make this work in gradle?

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By specifying ext: 'pom' you are creating an artifact-only dependency that resolves the pom file itself. Instead, remove the specified pom extension and the the dependencies you expect will be resolved.

compile group: 'org.elasticsearch.client', name: 'elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client', version: '6.4.1'