How to specify a classifier in a gradle dependency's dependency?

Question

Say I want to add guice-assistedinject as a dependency in my project. It specifies the guice artifact as a dependency itself. How do I tell it to use the no_aop version of guice?

I know I can do the following, but can I do it in one step without excluding the guice module?

dependencies {   compile (group: 'com.google.inject.extensions', name: 'guice-assistedinject', version: '3.0') {     exclude module: 'guice'   }   compile group: 'com.google.inject', name: 'guice', version: '3.0', classifier: 'no_aop' } 

Answer 1

There is no simpler solution. You can shorten the code by using short dependency notation (e.g. "com.google.inject:guice:3.0:no_aop").