Remove transitive dependency with classifier and replace with new one without classifier

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1

Many of our internal libraries using dependency with classifier, something like
’com.x:artifact:1.0.0:classifier’ and now we get rid of the classifier in the new version.
But now i need to force gradle to ignore all the transitive dependencies and add just
’com.x:artifact:2.0.0’

I’m able to remove the dependency globally by

configurations {
all*.exclude group: “com.x”, module: “artifact”
}

But then I can’t add it back. So I need to remove just transition, not direct dependencies.

I tried resolutionStrategy with force and it also doesn’t work.

2

I tried to use also this:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
        if (details.requested.name == 'artifact') {
            details.useTarget group: details.requested.group, name: details.requested.name, version: "3.0.0"                details.because "We want to use version 3.0.0 without classfier"
        }
    }
}

And it also doesn’t help, it looking for the new version, but still with classifier.

3 
configurations.all {
    exclude module: "artifact"
    resolutionStrategy.force "com.x:artifact:3.0.0"
}

also doesn’t help, exclude is still more strong than force and dependency is completely missing.

4

Really no way how to replace one dependency by the same one just without classifier?

5

Hi Tomas, I found this way you can manipulate the classifier - in my case I wanted to add it ("linux-x86_64"), not to remove it:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.eachDependency {
        if (this.requested.module.toString() == "io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll") {
            @Suppress("UnstableApiUsage")
            this.artifactSelection {
                @Suppress("UnstableApiUsage")
                this.selectArtifact(DependencyArtifact.DEFAULT_TYPE, null, "linux-x86_64")
            }
        }
    }
}

I’m using Kotlin DSL. Should work with Gradle 6.6 and onward.

Posting here for future reference

6

This works, thanks! In my case I needed to remove the classifier, so the syntax ended up like:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
        if (details.requested.module.toString() == "commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils") {
            details.artifactSelection{
                it.selectArtifact(DependencyArtifact.DEFAULT_TYPE, null, null)
            }
        }
    }
}