How to exclude dependencies in the POM file generated by the Gradle

Question

I'm using the "maven" plugin to upload the artifacts created by Gradle build to Maven central repository. I'm using a task similar to the following one:

uploadArchives {
  repositories {
    mavenDeployer {
      beforeDeployment { MavenDeployment deployment -> signing.signPom(deployment) }

      pom.project {
        name 'Example Application'
        packaging 'jar'
        url 'http://www.example.com/example-application'

        scm {
          connection 'scm:svn:http://foo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/'

          url 'http://foo.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/'
        }

        licenses {
          license {
            name 'The Apache License, Version 2.0'
            url 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt'
          }
        }

      }
    }
  }
}

However the POM file created by this task does not report correctly the dependencies that have been excluded in my Gradle build file. For example:

dependencies {
    compile('org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit.java7:3.5.2.201411120430-r') { exclude module: 'commons-logging' }
    compile('com.upplication:s3fs:0.2.8') { exclude module: 'commons-logging' }
}

How to have excluded dependencies managed correctly in the resulting POM file?

Answer 1

You can simply override the dependencies of the pom by filtering out the unwanted dependencies, e.g. to exclude junit you can add the following lines to the mavenDeployer configuration:

pom.whenConfigured {
    p -> p.dependencies = p.dependencies.findAll { 
        dep -> dep.artifactId != "junit" 
    }
}