I have built two jars and put them in Artifactory. One of the jars depends on the other (the dependency is in its build.gradle file). When I download the main jar as a dependency of my main app, the dependent jar is not downloaded. The only way I can get both is to put two compile statements in the build.gradle. How do I cause the dependent jar to also get downloaded?
The main jar file is user-cache.jar and it depends on blue-redis.jar. The build.gradle in the app that uses my main jar uses this compile statement:
compile(group: 'etd.user-cache', name: 'user-cache', version: '1.0.2', ext: '12.SNAPSHOT.jar')
The build.gradle for user-cache has this in it:
compile(group: 'etd.blue-redis', name: 'blue-redis', version: '1.0.1', ext: '4.SNAPSHOT.jar')
When I build my app, it only gets user-cache.jar. That makes it necessary to put both compile statements in my app's build.jar
What should I do to cause the blue-redis.jar to also be downloaded without needing its compile statement?
I assume that you are using a maven repository in Artifactory. When gradle is doing dependency resolution it will attempt to download a POM file and check for transitive dependencies as well as parent poms which may list additional dependencies.
To get the desired behavior, when you publish the main jar to Artifactory you need to include in its POM file a dependency on the other JAR.
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I'm working on a multi-module library project which I build with Gradle. I have a dependency to another module of this project in my dependencies section:
dependencies {
compile project(':my-other-module')
}
My problem is that I want to build a .jar file which only contains the local modules in the final file, not its transitive dependencies. I tried this:
jar {
from project(':my-other-module').configurations.compile.collect { zipTree it }
}
but this added all the transitive dependencies as well. I want to create a .jar which only contains my own files, so the users of this library can have their own versions of transitive dependencies. How can I do so?
Further clarification:
I have dependencies declared in my project to external jars like apache-commons. I want these not to be in my resulting .jar file but I want the users of my library to be able to just add my library as a dependency and let Maven/Gradle download the transitive dependencies. I don't want these transitive dependencies to be in the .jar file I deploy to Maven Central. compileOnly is not an option since the dependencies I use like apache-commons are not provided by a framework or a container. They need to be present as compile dependencies. I just want to build and deploy a .jar file which has all the files in my project which has multiple modules.
I am not sure it'll help you or not but, you can try this.
In your build.gradle file, customize your jar task as follows:
// This closure will return the full directory path of folder where your classes are built
ext.moduleClassPath = { moduleName ->
def classOutputDirConst = "/classes/java/main"
return "${project(":${moduleName}").buildDir}${classOutputDirConst}"
}
// Now jar task will include only the built file of specified project
jar {
from(moduleClassPath("projectName1"), moduleClassPath("projectName2"))
}
Check the reference for the from(SourcePaths) method here: Reference: https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.jvm.tasks.Jar.html#org.gradle.jvm.tasks.Jar:from(java.lang.Object[])
Gradle has a compile-only dependency concept, similar to Maven's provided scope:
Compile-only dependencies are distinctly different than regular compile dependencies. They are not included on the runtime classpath and they are non-transitive, meaning they are not included in dependent projects.
The dependencies you don't want can be declared in the compileOnly configuration, rather than compile, eg:
dependencies {
compileOnly 'javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.5'
}
compileOnly is not even visible to unit tests, by default. We change this in a common gradle snippet which we include in each build:
// compileOnly isn't visible to tests by default, add it
plugins.withType(JavaPlugin).whenPluginAdded {
sourceSets {
test.compileClasspath += configurations.compileOnly
test.runtimeClasspath += configurations.compileOnly
}
}
For the second part, for which I believe you want to create a single "fat" jar,
I would suggest creating your jar using the very good Shadow Plugin, rather than manually extending the jar task. By default, the shadow plugin will not include anything in the compileOnly configuration in the resulting jar.
If I have two dependencies in my build.gradle file that refer to group artifacts and both of these groups contain references to the same jar files, how does Gradle handle them? Does Gradle recognize the version difference between the individual jar files that make up the group and only select the one with the newest version when a compile is made or does it pick the one that is listed last in the build.gradle file? Example:
dependencies {
compile group: 'some-sdk-1', name: 'sdk1', version: '2.5'
compile group: 'some-sdk-2', name: 'sdk2', version: '1.0'
}
In this example, some-sdk-1 might contain a jar called lib1-1.0.jar
In some-sdk-2, the same library is present but has a different version. For example lib1-2.0.jar
Which jar file is used?
It depends on how the jar file is put inside the library (sdk).
You should manage the jar files as transitive dependencies.
It means that inside the pom file related to the sdk you have a dependency of the jar file.
In this case you can check the doc:
Gradle offers the following conflict resolution strategies:
Newest: The newest version of the dependency is used. This is Gradle’s default strategy, and is often an appropriate choice as long as versions are backwards-compatible.
Fail: A version conflict results in a build failure. This strategy requires all version conflicts to be resolved explicitly in the build script. See ResolutionStrategy for details on how to explicitly choose a particular version.
Instead if you are just putting the jar inside the sdk without using a transitive dependency (just the jar file inside):
If you don’t use transitive dependency management, version conflicts are undetected and the often accidental order of the classpath will determine what version of a dependency will win.
I am trying out Gradle, and am wondering, what is supposed to happen to a project's dependencies after you run gradle build? For example, my sample projects don't run on the command line after they are built, because they are missing dependencies. They seem to compile fine, as gradle doesn't give me errors or warnings about finding the dependencies.
Gradle projects I've made in IntelliJ Idea have the same problem. They compile and run inside the IDE, but are missing dependencies and can't run on the command line.
So what is supposed to happen to the dependencies I declare in the build.gradle file? Shouldn't they be output somewhere together with my .class files? Otherwise, what is the point of gradle when I could manage this by editing my classpath?
Edit: Here is my build.gradle file:
apply plugin: 'java'
jar {
manifest {
attributes('Main-Class': 'Animals')
}
}
repositories {
flatDir{
dirs "D:\\libs\\gradleRepo"
}
}
dependencies {
compile name: "AnimalTypes-1.0-SNAPSHOT"
}
sourceSets{
main{
java {
srcDirs=['src']
}
}
}
Your Gradle build only takes care of the compile time and allows you to use the specified dependencies in your code (it adds them to the compile classpath). But it does not take care of the runtime. Once the JAR is build, you need to specify the runtime classpath and provide all required dependencies.
You may think, that this is bad or a disadvantage, but actually it is totally fine and intended, because if you build a Java library, you won't need to execute it, you just want to specify it as a dependency for another project. If you would distribute your library to a Maven repository, all dependencies from Maven repositories (module dependencies) would end up in a POM descriptor as transitive dependencies.
Now, if you want to build a runnable Java application, simply use the Gradle Application Plugin (apply plugin: 'application'), which will create a ZIP file containing the dependencies and start scripts providing your runtime classpath for execution.
Third-party plugins can also produce so-called fat JARs, which are JAR files with all dependencies included. It depends on your use case if you should use them, because often dependency management via repositories is the better way to go.
Currently I have two projects with gradle build.gradle. The first is going to create a fat jar file, which I would like to include in a war file. I thought compiling it would be enough, but it doesn't seem to be ending up in the /lib directory of my war file. Anyone have thoughts I am quite new to gradle.
dependencies {
compile project(':JarProject')
providedCompile 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.1.0'
providedCompile 'org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jsp-api:7.0.55'
}
war {
archiveName 'WarProject.war'
from 'JarProject/build/libs'
webXml = file('src/web.xml')
}
Does the second project war need to be in providedRuntime? Or should I publish the jar from the other project in the local maven repo and include it that way?
The War task essentially behaves like a CopyTask with regards to stuff it packs in the war, so the documentation on working with files is useful. In essence, I think you need something like (untested):
from fileTree('JarProject/build/libs') {
into("lib")
}
That being said, using mavenLocal() and publishing there also works, but it can lead to unexpected results when the war includes some old version from local, picking up the jar explicitly from the file system like above is better.
I think the elegant solution would be to use multi project builds and project level dependencies. You would have the two builds as separate projects of the same Gradle build and add the "jar project" as a regular compile dependency.
How have you declared the dependency? I assume you have a multi-project build with subprojects A and B, both using the War plugin. I made an experiment using Gradle 2.4 and if I declare B/build.gradle like this:
apply plugin: 'war'
dependencies {
compile project(':A')
}
then B.war contains WEB-INF/lib/A.jar. If you correctly follow conventions of Gradle War plugin (place web resources in A/src/main/webapp/ and code-related resources in A/src/main/resources/), then A.jar should contain what you want.
see this
I'm using Gradle to create an ear, but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to properly include dependencies in the lib folder.
I know that I can use
earlib project (group:name:version)
to include jars there. And that also those jars' compile dependencies are going to be added in the ear's lib folder.
My problem is that I also have jars that are listed in the ear's build.gradle as
deploy project (':jar-name')
How can I add their dependencies in the lib folder?
The only way I found is to add them as earlib or as dependencies of an earlib, but this forces me to write them twice and feels harder than it should be (with Maven you just need to specify your dependencies in the subprojects and they will be added in the ear\lib directory)
EDIT
Basically what I would like to end up with, is a transitive deploy configuration.