Determine source of transitive dependency

Question

I have a project in which I am using sl4j with log4j. I recently added a few new dependencies to my project, and one of these new dependencies that I added is including a transitive dependency to logback-classic, which includes another binding for sj4j.

I want to get rid of logback, but I have no clue which of my direct dependencies added the transitive dependency so that I can exclude it.

In maven I know how to get the entire graph of dependencies to determine which is the source of a transitive dependency, but I have no clue of how to do this with gradle.

Does anyone knows how to get the source dependency of a transitive dependency with gradle?

Answer 1

To show the whole dependency tree for each class path, use:

> gradle dependencies

If you are only interested in a particular class path, use (say):

> gradle dependencies --configuration compile

Use the -p option to run on a sub-project.

To show who pulls in a particular dependency onto a particular class path, and how any version conflicts were resolved, use (say):

> gradle dependencyInsight --dependency logback --configuration compile

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Note that you can also exclude a dependency from a whole class path (or multiple). Usually this is more reliable than excluding a particular transitive dependency. For example:

configurations.all*.exclude module: "logback-classic"