Gradle: exclude and include multiple groups/modules in single line from compile closure

Question

this syntax may be not yet provided but I am asking to avoid redundant code. Right now I am excluding jars like this

 compile ('com.mygroup:myJar:0.1.1-M1-SNAPSHOT+') {
    exclude group: 'org.apache.xmlgraphics'
    exclude group:'org.apache.avalon.framework'
    exclude group:'net.engio'
    exclude group: 'com.google.guava'
}

How can i exclude multiple groups/modules on a single line of code, for example, this syntax

compile ('com.mygroup:myJar:0.1.1-M1-SNAPSHOT+'){
    exclude group: ['org.apache.xmlgraphics', 'org.apache.avalon.framework', 'net.engio', 'com.google.guava']
}

Or is there any other short code which does the same thing.

Thank You.

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

compile ('com.mygroup:myJar:0.1.1-M1-SNAPSHOT+'){
    ['org.apache.xmlgraphics', 'org.apache.avalon.framework', 'net.engio', 'com.google.guava'].each {
        exclude group: it
    }
}

Note that this is leveraging a Groovy feature, not a Gradle feature.

Note also that I don't believe that include is a thing in this context (see the method summary here).