How to ignore a specific transitive dependency from all dependencies in Gradle

Question

How can I ignore a specific transitive dependency in Gradle?

For example, many libraries (such as Spring and ...) depend on commons-logging, I want to replace commons-logging with SLF4J (and its jcl-over-slf4j bridge).

Is it any way in my gradle script to mention it once, and not for each dependency which depends on commons-logging?

I was thinking of an script, iterating on all dependencies and adding some exclude on all of them, is there any better solution? And how that script be like?

Please try resolution strategy : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23124509/how-to-exclude-specific-jars-from-web-inf-lib/30393301#30393301 — smilyface, May 22 '15 at 09:39

score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '13 at 00:39

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configurations {
    compile.exclude group: 'commons-logging'
}

answered Nov 15 '13 at 00:39

Ori Dar

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Or: `configurations.all { exclude group: 'commons-logging' }`. – Peter Niederwieser Nov 15 '13 at 05:25
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Is there any way to exclude a specific version of a group? – JiniKJohny Jul 06 '15 at 04:52

score 18 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 04 '14 at 16:25

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Came here with the same problem but ended up using the following to do an actual replace. Posting it for completeness' sake.

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.eachDependency {
        if(it.requested.name == 'commons-logging') {
            it.useTarget 'org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:1.7.7'
        }
    }
}

answered Aug 04 '14 at 16:25

user2543253

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Kudos for your answer and the elegance of Gradle when dealing with such tasks. – Patrick Bergner Sep 03 '14 at 14:11
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I'd like to add that in the meantime a new Gradle version is out and it has module replacements. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks as if they might do the same thing. – user2543253 Jan 30 '15 at 10:22
Came for the question, found the better answer. ;) – lapo Mar 14 '18 at 14:07

How to ignore a specific transitive dependency from all dependencies in Gradle

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