How to use a maven BOM for Spring in Gradle? - maven

Question

I am converting POM to Gradle and one of the things I am stuck at is having dependency management in Gradle like the following that I have in POM:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
<version>Edgware.SR4</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
Is there a way to have Edgware.SR4 in Gradle as well?
I checked https://docs.gradle.org/4.6/release-notes.html#bom-import but that doesn't really tell me a way on how to utilize Edgware.SR4 BOM.
UPDATE
I finally have my build.gradle as follows that seems to work:
plugins{
id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.5.8.RELEASE'
}
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
dependencyManagement {
imports {
mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Edgware.SR4'
}
}
This seems to be working fine but wondering if there is any flaw in this approach. Documentation available at https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/gradle-plugin/reference/html/ suggests to use apply false to begin with in
id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.5.8.RELEASE'
I didn't do that and it worked fine. Wondering why it was suggested like that.

Answer 1

Assuming that you are using Spring Boot and, therefore, already have the Dependency Management Plugin applied, you can import Spring Cloud's bom by adding the following to your build.gradle file:
dependencyManagement {
imports {
mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Edgware.SR4'
}
}

Answer 2

As of today, the latest versions of gradle have a built-in solution.
dependencies {
implementation(platform("org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Edgware.SR4"))
}