How to exclude multiple groups when using dependencies with gradle

Question

Just like this code:

dependencies {
    compile ('com.wdullaer:materialdatetimepicker:3.2.2') {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-v4'
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'design'
    }
}

In an android app build.gradle file, when I want to dependency a remote library, how to use exclude group syntax to exclude multiple groups?

Although the code above is a right way, but it`s a little bit complicated.Is there a simpler way?

Answer 1

Well basically 'exclude' is just a method belongs to 'ModuleDependency' class which accepts a 'Map' of 'group' and 'module' and there's no way to pass more.

However you can use 'Groovy' power in this case and for each 'group' from list to call method 'exclude' on 'ModuleDependency' and to pass current 'group'. Take a look at approximate code below.

compile() { dep ->
    [group1, group2].each{ group -> dep.exclude group: group }
}

Answer 2

Example is here:

compile group: 'org.jitsi', name: 'libjitsi', version: '1.0-9-g4b85531', {
    [new Tuple('org.opentelecoms.sdp', 'sdp-api'),
     new Tuple('junit', 'junit')].each {
        exclude group: "${it.get(0)}", module: "${it.get(1)}"
    }
}