Removing dependencies from classpath

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I am kind of hacking gradle to let me publish sql resources to artifactory. I am publishing sql scripts as jar files so I can declare the scripts as dependencies. (BTW I think there should be a gradle feature that allows publisihng/consuming non-java dependencies)

When I declare dependencies like this:

testRuntime(group: 'com.softwareag.db.cdbs', name: 'mssql-analysis', version: 'latest.milestone')

this allows me to find the jar file on disk and unzip it for use.

However, I do not want these dependencies to be added to the classpath when running tests (windows classpath too long issues).

Is there a way I can apply a pattern to not put any dependency in the classpath for test execution and IDE generation that has ‘com.softwareag.db.cdbs’ in it?

thanks! phil

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Have you tried something like

configurations {
  forSql
}
  dependencies {
  forSql 'com.softwareag.db.cdbs:mssql-analysis:latest.milestone'
}

Now it will not appear on classpath when runnign tests, but you can still get hold of all of the files via ‘project.configurations.forSql.files’

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Lol… this is exactly what occurred to me about 5 mins ago!

Giving it a go right now, I’ll report my results.