How can I exclude dependencies brought in from other sub-projects?

Question

This is not a duplicate since those other solutions did not work.

I have a sub-project:

:commons:widget

gradle.build (sub-project) resembles this:

configurations {providedCompile}  dependencies {   compile project(":commons:other-widget") ...other dependencies... } 

If you display the dependencies:

+--- project :commons:some-other-project     +--- project :commons:exclude-me-project (*)     \--- org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs: -> 3.0.3 (*) 

What doesn't work:

Any of the usual syntax. I've tried every variation I can think of. Even went looking for the API but was unable to find what I need there.

In this project's dependencies section: ...

compile project(":commons:some-other-project") {  exclude (":commons:exclude-me-project") } 

Result:

Could not find method exclude() for arguments [:commons:some-other-project] on project  

I've also tried:

compile ( project (':commons:some-other-project') ) {   transitive = false } 

Result: Instead of removing dependencies of ":commons:some-other-project", it removes ":commons:some-other-project".

I have a large and complicated project to convert. I've a lot of this sort of work ahead of me. Given a project as a dependency, how do I exclude things from it?

Answer 1

exclude for dependencies has a little bit another syntax, so try to do it providing the module name, which is equals to the exclude-me-project name, like:

compile(project(":commons:some-other-project")) {     exclude module: "exclude-me-project" } 

Alternatively, you may exclude all the transitive dependencies for commons project, but it will remove all the deps of the some-other-project project, including the exclude-me-project:

compile(project(":commons:some-other-project")) {     transitive = false }