Gradle dependency with test classifier

Question

I've been trying to reference an artefact without luck.

With maven I have no problem doing this:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.kafka</groupId>
    <artifactId>kafka_2.13</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0</version>
    <classifier>test</classifier>
</dependency>

Maven selects the correct artefact.

However, with gradle, it always seems to include the artefact without the classifier, no matter what I try:

implementation 'org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.13:3.0.0:test'

I have read the gradle documentation and it suggests this syntax, maybe it has something to do with this specific artefact?

Update

My goal is to use spring-kafka-test. Our internal artefact repository is not set up to use pom resolution, which is why I need to add transitives manually.

I've ruled out the fact that it might be our internal repository by only using maven central; and I get the same results.

Answer 1

I managed to include only the mentioned jar, with:

dependencies {
  implementation ('org.apache.kafka:kafka_2.13:3.0.0:test') {
    exclude group: 'org.apache.kafka' // or finer grained, if we like
  }
  ...
}

See also: How to specify a classifier in a gradle dependency's dependency?