How to group multiple dependency in same line - Gradle

Question

In the following example, I have 3 dependencies with the same group and the same version. I want to group these three dependencies in one line.

compile group: 'org.apache.ws.commons.axiom', name: 'axiom-api', version: '1.2.7'
compile group: 'org.apache.ws.commons.axiom', name: 'axiom-dom', version: '1.2.7'
compile group: 'org.apache.ws.commons.axiom', name: 'axiom-impl', version: '1.2.7'

Expected like below

group("axiom-api", "axiom-dom", "axiom-impl", :under=>"org.apache.ws.commons.axiom", :version=>"1.2.7")

Is it possible in gradle?

Could you provide an example of how you expect it to look like? I don't see no point in formatting it in one line. You could/should however use a variable for the version number to keep the versions always in sync. — dpr, Jul 28 '20 at 15:44
As you have same version, to find the optimum, try this useful suggestion https://stackoverflow.com/a/30649660/13031115 — MdBasha, Jul 28 '20 at 16:58

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 29 '20 at 12:17

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Well it's actually more lines in total, but if this (same group, same version and multiple artifacts) is a repeating pattern, it might still be handy:

def groupDependencies ( group, names, version ) {
  def deps = []
  names.each { it -> 
    deps += [group: group, name: it, version: version]
  }

  return deps
}

dependencies {
  compile(groupDependencies('org.apache.ws.commons.axiom', ['axiom-api', 'axiom-dom', 'axiom-impl'], '1.2.7'))
}

edited Jul 29 '20 at 12:17

Sathiamoorthy

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answered Jul 28 '20 at 17:53

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the above code not working. it does not throw an error and the same time did not download the dependencies. – Sathiamoorthy Jul 29 '20 at 04:34
@Shakthifuture, tested with gradle 6.4.1 and it works. What version of gradle are you using? – dpr Jul 29 '20 at 07:07
I am using 6.0 Gradle version. – Sathiamoorthy Jul 29 '20 at 09:15
@Shakthifuture could you try a more recent version? – dpr Jul 29 '20 at 10:10
6.0 is not a very old version, see https://gradle.org/releases/ – Sathiamoorthy Jul 29 '20 at 10:37
@Shakthifuture So are you trying a more recent version? – dpr Jul 29 '20 at 11:24
@Shakthifuture, see my update. I tested with gradle 6.0 myself and it works pretty well. – dpr Jul 29 '20 at 11:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 27 '22 at 20:23

This is an example where you can add different artifacts each with a different version.

def groupDependencies (group, artifact) {
    def dependencies = []

    artifact.each { it ->
        dependencies += [group: group, name: it["name"], version: it["version"]]
    }

    return dependencies
}

dependencies {
    implementation(groupDependencies("org.apache.commons", [
            [name: "commons-lang3", version: "3.12.0"],
            [name: "commons-collections4", version: "4.4"],
            [name: "commons-compress", version: "1.21"]
    ]))
}

And this other is for when the group and the name is the same (you can use them both on the same file):

def groupDependencies (artifact) {
    def dependencies = []

    artifact.each { it ->
        dependencies += [group: it["name"], name: it["name"], version: it["version"]]
    }

    return dependencies
}

dependencies {
    implementation(groupDependencies([
            [name: "commons-cli", version: "1.5.0"],
            [name: "commons-io", version: "2.11.0"]
    ]))
}

How to group multiple dependency in same line - Gradle

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