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Punter Vicky
Punter Vicky

Reputation: 17002

Gradle Dependencies - What does + mean

I see some dependencies similar to below -

compile("com.service:service-boot:0.3.+")

What does + mean? I have also seen "changing: true" in some places , what does this mean as well?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 363

Answers (1)

JBirdVegas
JBirdVegas

Reputation: 11413

Here the 0.3.+ means the latest version to match 0.3.0 < n < 0.4.0. The check is performed and the result is cached for some period. So this version could be 0.3.3 then when 0.3.4 is released sometime in the future gradle will detect this and update your local dependency.

The changing = true means gradle should check the md5 of the artifact every build to see if the value has changed and the dependency should be updated. If the dependency has a version ending in -SNAPSHOT then this value is true by default.

Reference: https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sub:dynamic_versions_and_changing_modules

Upvotes: 2

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