gradle war: how to force inclusion of transitively provided dep? - gradle

Question

Having this build.gradle:
apply plugin: 'war'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url "http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public" }
}
configurations {
providedCompile {
exclude module: 'commons-httpclient' // here it doesn't work
}
}
dependencies {
compile 'commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.1'
providedCompile ('org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxrs:2.3.3.Final') {
//exclude module: 'commons-httpclient' // here it works
}
}
I expect to have this war:
WEB-INF/
WEB-INF/lib/
WEB-INF/lib/commons-httpclient-3.1.jar
but only have this:
WEB-INF/
If I un-comment 2nd exclude and comment 1st exclude, it works as needed.
If this is expected behavior, how can I otherwise globally exclude a particular transitive from provided libs?

Answer 1

It turns out that this is the "right" thing to happen, as compile actually extends from providedCompile:
apply plugin: 'war'
configurations.compile.extendsFrom.each {
println "$it"
}
So, my solution was the following:
apply plugin: 'war'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url "http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public" }
}
configurations {
forceInclude {}
}
dependencies {
providedCompile 'org.jboss.resteasy:resteasy-jaxrs:2.3.3.Final'
forceInclude 'commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.1'
}
war {
classpath += configurations.forceInclude
}