Gradle DSL method not found: 'exclude()'

Question

I am working in Android Studio and when I added the line in build.gradle file

dependencies {
    compile files('libs/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.12-20150511-a.jar'){
        exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax-api'
    }
}

I caught the error:

Gradle DSL method not found: 'exclude()'

What is the reason of the error?

Don't think exclude can be used if you're just pulling in a file. Files don't have dependencies — tim_yates, Jun 03 '17 at 22:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 04 '17 at 10:47

0

The way you defined the dependency, you applied the closure to files instead of compile.

files('libs/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.12-20150511-a.jar'){
    exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax-api'
}

Instead you have to make sure to apply the closure to compile directly.

compile(files('libs/poi-ooxml-schemas-3.12-20150511-a.jar')){
    exclude group: 'stax', module: 'stax-api'
}

But I doubt it's necessary at all. Groups and modules are part of the Maven system and the JAR file itself doesn't have this information to exclude.

answered Jun 04 '17 at 10:47

tynn

thank you. I tried this way but it doesn't work. Maybe you are right speaking that JAR file can't exclude the information. But I found some examples in Internet where developers using this scheme. I am not sure that it works. – Delphian Jun 05 '17 at 07:49
What parts do you want to exclude from the JAR? – tynn Jun 05 '17 at 08:20
I can't obfuscate Apache Poi lib (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44323942/android-proguard-apache-poi - my question about it) and I saw the recommend to exclude module stax api like I did above, but I caught the error about DSL method. – Delphian Jun 05 '17 at 08:27

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