Gradle - Exclude provided scope jars from War file - gradle

Question

Gradle seems to claim that it doesnt include the providedCompile and providedRuntime scopes when building the war file.
But, when i do the build with below war config, a folder named "lib-provided" seems to be containing all the provided scoped jars. How do I limit this functionality to NOT include the provided scoped jars.
configure(rootProject) {
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
apply plugin: 'java'
targetCompatibility = 1.8
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
repositories {
mavenCentral()
mavenLocal()
maven { url "https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/" }
}
// Import Spring Boot's bom, spring-boot-dependencies
dependencyManagement {
imports {
mavenBom 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies:1.2.5.RELEASE'
}
}
// Override the spring-data-releasetrain.version property
ext['spring-data-releasetrain.version'] = 'Fowler-SR1'
dependencies {
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator")
compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security")
............ Other Spring Boot based projects
testCompile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test")
compile("com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype:jackson-datatype-hibernate4:2.4.6")
......... Below are the "Provided" Scoped packages
providedRuntime("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat")
providedCompile("org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasper:8.0.23")
providedCompile("org.hibernate:hibernate-core:4.3.7.Final")
providedCompile("org.hibernate:hibernate-infinispan:4.3.7.Final")
providedCompile("org.hibernate:hibernate-entitymanager:4.3.7.Final")
providedCompile("org.hibernate:hibernate-validator:5.1.3.Final")
providedCompile("org.hibernate:hibernate-search-orm:5.0.1.Final")
providedCompile("org.hibernate.common:hibernate-commons-annotations:4.0.4.Final")
providedCompile("org.infinispan:infinispan-core:7.1.1.Final")
providedCompile("org.infinispan:infinispan-query:7.1.1.Final")
testCompile("com.microsoft.sqlserver:sqljdbc41:4.1")
}
configurations {
providedCompile
// replaced with jcl-over-slf4j
all*.exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'
// replaced with log4j-over-slf4j
all*.exclude group: 'log4j', module: 'log4j'
}
}
war {
baseName = 'abc'
version = '5.0.0-SNAPSHOT-' + + System.currentTimeMillis();
doFirst {
manifest {
attributes("Implementation-Title": project.name, "Implementation-Version": version, "Implementation-Timestamp": new Date())
}
}
webAppDirName = 'web'
includeEmptyDirs false
archiveName 'abc.war'
}
Thanks!

Answer 1

In the below configuration, Gradle 4.6
None of the below depndnecies will be in the War/WEB-INF lib.
If you have an Ear build.gradle can contain entry like below , which will ensure all depndence jar in the Ear/lib folder.
if the below entry is made, The generated Ear file will have .war file and the War/lib folder will not be having the specified dependent files.
apply plugin: 'war'
earlib project(path: ':MyWebProject', configuration: 'compile')
deploy project(path: ':MyWebProject', configuration: 'archives')
apply plugin: 'war'
dependencies {
providedCompile('org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-web')
providedCompile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web') {
exclude module: "spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
}
}