How to use a maven BOM for Spring in Gradle?

Question

I am converting POM to Gradle and one of the things I am stuck at is having dependency management in Gradle like the following that I have in POM:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Edgware.SR4</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Is there a way to have Edgware.SR4 in Gradle as well?

I checked https://docs.gradle.org/4.6/release-notes.html#bom-import but that doesn't really tell me a way on how to utilize Edgware.SR4 BOM.

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UPDATE

I finally have my build.gradle as follows that seems to work:

plugins{
   id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.5.8.RELEASE'
}

apply plugin: 'io.spring.dependency-management'
dependencyManagement {
    imports {
       mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Edgware.SR4'
    }
}

This seems to be working fine but wondering if there is any flaw in this approach. Documentation available at https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/gradle-plugin/reference/html/ suggests to use apply false to begin with in

id 'org.springframework.boot' version '1.5.8.RELEASE'

I didn't do that and it worked fine. Wondering why it was suggested like that.

Answer 1

Assuming that you are using Spring Boot and, therefore, already have the Dependency Management Plugin applied, you can import Spring Cloud's bom by adding the following to your build.gradle file:

dependencyManagement {
    imports {
        mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Edgware.SR4'
    }
}