Is there a simple way to use a different Spring version?

Question

I want to use latest Spring 4.1.x snapshot in my Spring Boot project.

Is there a simple way to override the version of all Spring dependencies, or should I include all required Spring dependencies with it's desired version manually?

Reason is I want experiment with Spring 4.1 @JsonView annotation in REST services.

Answer 1

If you're using Maven with spring-boot-starter-parent as the parent, you can override the spring.version property in your pom to change the version of Spring that you're using:

<properties>
    <spring.version>4.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</spring.version>
</properties>

If you're using Gradle, you can achieve the same effect by using a resolution strategy to override the version of everything with the org.springframework group id:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        eachDependency {
            if (it.requested.group == 'org.springframework') {
                it.useVersion '4.1.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT'
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

I once again needed this and previous block doesn't work anymore, causing already dependencies to be failed.

Anyway this works:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        eachDependency { DependencyResolveDetails details ->
            if (details.requested.group == "org.springframework") {
                details.useVersion "4.1.0.RC1"
            }
        }
    }
}