Gradle remove specific dependency configuration from generated pom - gradle

Question

I need to ignore some dependencies defined in the configuration "configurations.nonDistributable" when using gradles plugin maven-publish to generate pom files, I haven't found a reliable way of doing this, except for manually parsing the XML to remove them. Am I missing something, does gradle allow for an easier way of doing this?
build.gradle example:
configurations{
nonDistributable
}
dependencies {
nonDistributable ('org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:2.52.0'){
exclude group:'com.google.guava' // included in elasticsearch
}
nonDistributable ('com.assertthat:selenium-shutterbug:0.3') {
transitive = false
}
nonDistributable 'mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.40'
nonDistributable fileTree(dir: 'non-distributable-libs', include: '*.jar')
}
// generate subprojects pom
subprojects {
apply plugin: 'maven-publish'
model {
tasks.generatePomFileForMavenJavaPublication {
destination = file("$buildDir/../../$distDir/build/pom/$project.name-pom.xml")
}
}
afterEvaluate { project ->
publishing {
publications {
mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
from components.java
}
}
}
}
}
// generate root project pom
model {
tasks.generatePomFileForMavenJavaPublication {
destination = file("$buildDir/../$distDir/build/pom/$project.name-pom.xml")
}
}
afterEvaluate { project ->
publishing {
publications {
mavenJava(MavenPublication) {
from components.java
}
}
}
}

Answer 1

You can create your own publication pom. It would look something like this:
customMaven(MavenPublication) {
artifactId 'myArtifactId'
pom.withXml {
def dependencies = asNode().appendNode('dependencies')
configurations.specialConfiguration.getResolvedConfiguration().getFirstLevelModuleDependencies().each {
def dependency = dependencies.appendNode('dependency')
dependency.appendNode('groupId', it.moduleGroup)
dependency.appendNode('artifactId', it.moduleName)
dependency.appendNode('version', it.moduleVersion)
}
}
}
Then you can create a special configuration that extends from only those configurations that you want to include.
I am using this to create a special pom that contains all testRuntime dependencies to be used for integration tests separated from the main project.