Transitive vs module dependency issue

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Good afternoon,

Faced pretty interesting behavior I can not explain. Situation is pretty simple. We have small multi-module project with two submodules, one is api library, i.e. ‘com.company.web:api’, second submodule is a war application which has it’s own source, UI files and depends on api module as ‘compile project(“:api”)’. Recently new dependency was introduced in war module (another api jar) which also depends on ‘api’, adding transitive dependency on it. The problem is even though transitive dependency is a bit out of date Gradle does not perceive it as a conflict but packages two version of jar into war file, causing runtime issues:

~/projects/web/service$ gradle -q dependencyInsight --configuration compile --dependency api
project :api
-– compile

com.company.web:api:1.1.6

GroupId and ArtifactId are the same, so I would expect Gradle to identify this as conflict, while it keeps thinking that these are absolutely different artifacts. For sure quick workaround is:

configurations.compile.resolutionStrategy.dependencySubstitution {
substitute module(‘com.company.web:api’) with project(‘:api’)
}

But I have a feeling that it might be kind of a bug, or feature I don’t understand. Checked dependency management manual and did not find anything related to this situation.

Any advice is appreciated.

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Gradle uses project.group and project.name for project dependencies. Make sure that your api project has these set correctly.

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Thanks a lot, now I see the problem, we set Maven publishing properties but they do not correspond to project name/goup