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Sebastien Lorber
Sebastien Lorber

Reputation: 92120

Maven3: replace transitive dependency of a direct dependency in dependency management

I'm trying to fix the issue described here: http://www.jayway.com/2013/04/12/solving-asm-conflicts-after-upgrading-to-groovy-2-1/

I have one dependency (Swagger->Jersey) that uses ASM 3.2 and one RestAssured that requires Groovy that requires ASM 4.0.

The idea is to replace the dependency to groovy to a dependency groovy-all which does not depend on ASM 4.0 (the class packages seems here but have been renamed using jarjar).

Is it possible to tell maven, in dependency management of a parent pom, that whenever a child depends on RestAssured, it will thus load transitively the groovy-all dependency instead of the normal groovy dependency?

Thanks

The aim is that all childs only need:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
  <artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
</dependency>

Which retrieve groovy-all instead of groovy

And not

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
  <artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
    <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
</dependency>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 579

Answers (1)

carlspring
carlspring

Reputation: 32597

No, it's not possible. However, you can use dependency <exclusions/>. Furthermore, as a top-level dependency, you can define groovy-all.

The article you linked to illustrates the following as a solution:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.jayway.restassured</groupId>
    <artifactId>rest-assured</artifactId>
    <version>1.8.0</version>
    <exclusions>
        <!-- Exclude Groovy because of classpath issue -->
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
            <artifactId>groovy</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
    <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
    <!-- Needs to be the same version that 
         REST Assured depends on -->
    <version>2.1.2</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

Upvotes: 1

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