Allow gradle to define all dependencies

[brasslock]

Hi,

When using MavenCaplet it downloads transitive dependencies of the specified dependency set.
I really want to only download a fixed set of jars that have been determined by gradle (using various conflict resolution / force rules).

It would be nice if there was an option to control the behaviour so that all dependencies were explicitly specified in the caplet and no transitive dependencies were downloaded. i.e. use gradle to determine the required dependencies, and specify (:) on each dependency so that not other downloads occur.

(from https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!topic/capsule-user/kG2CZRzL3LY)

Thanks,
Ross

[brasslock]

After lots of different attempts, this found that this gradle snippet appears to get all the relevant info so that I can then generate a maven capsule containing all required transitive dependencies (so that transitives are not fetched at launch).

project.configurations.runtime.resolvedConfiguration.resolvedArtifacts.each { ResolvedArtifact artifact ->
def id = artifact.id.componentIdentifier
if (id instanceof ProjectComponentIdentifier) {
    println("ARTIFACT FILE - ${artifact.file}")
} else if (id instanceof ModuleComponentIdentifier) {
    println("ARTIFACT MODULE ${id.group}:${id.module}:${id.version}(*:*)")
} else {
    println("ARTIFACT UNKNOWN ${artifact}")
}

ComponentArtifactIdentifier was only added to ResolvedArtifact relatively recently, so this will only work with recent versions of gradle.

I did not get any answers, but this question contains some of my attempts:
https://discuss.gradle.org/t/determining-external-vs-sub-project-dependencies/12321?u=ross.black

Ross

[danthegoodman]

Sounds good, Ross. I would appreciate a pull request if you feel up to it, but I imagine I'll find time to tackle this if you don't. Thank you for the snippet and starting the conversation on the gradle forums.