DRY gradle dependency blocks

Question

Is there a good pattern to reuse dependency blocks in gradle? at the moment there is a lot of repetition ( same blocks in different modules - application / tests / .. ) Is there a way to define these dependencies in a central place and reuse them in the modules?

Answer 1

You can group dependencies into a list for instance and the pass this list for given configuration:

apply plugin: 'java'

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

ext.forDI = [
    'com.google.inject:guice:3.0',
    'com.google.guava:guava:18.0'
]

dependencies {
    compile(forDI)
}

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