How to get insight of a dependency for the "implementation" configuration?

Question

Based on documentation (4.7.6 - Getting the insight into a particular dependency) we can get the insights for a particular configuration specifying the configuration itself. In the example they are using as configuration compile, which is deprecated. I tried to reproduce the same command replacing, in build.gradle, the compile configuration with the implementation configuration (as I got we are not supposed to use compile anymore). But when I run:

gradle dependencyInsight --dependency groovy --configuration implementation

Gradle is returning:

Execution failed for task ':dependencyInsight'.
Resolving configuration 'implementation' directly is not allowed

My build.gradle file is the following:

apply plugin: 'java-library'

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies{
    implementation 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.4.10'
}

Does it mean I cannot get the insight of a dependency if I'm using implementation or is there another way to get it?

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, asked around and got this answer:

The configuration is compileClasspath. If you have variants, there is a configuration per-variant (e.g. for the release variant, your configuration would be releaseCompileClasspath).

Examples

1. No variants: gradle dependencyInsight --dependency groovy --configuration compileClasspath;
2. Release variant: gradle dependencyInsight --dependency groovy --configuration releaseCompileClasspath

Note

There are a few ways to figure out the available configurations.

1. If you add configurations.each { println it.name } to your top-level gradle file, the next time you run a task, you'll also get a list of all of your configurations.
2. Run the dependencies task on your top-level module - this will output all dependencies for all configurations. It can be a lot of text, so you could pipe it into a text file for easier searching (gradle dependencies > dependencies.txt)

Answer 2

To get the list of available configuration that can be used with dependencyInsight, the easy way is the following :

1. Open gradle view in android studio View > Tool Windows > Gradle
2. Select and run task 'Your App' > Tasks > Android > androidDependencies

Then you have a list of all dependencies for all available configuration, just pick one and run :

gradle :mymodule:dependencyInsight --dependency okhttp --configuration flavourDebugCompileClasspath

Hope it helps