maven-shade-plugin: exclude a dependency and all its transitive dependencies

Question

Using maven-shade-plugin, is there a way to exclude a dependency (which is not provided) and all its transitive dependencies?

For example :

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.example</groupId>
        <artifactId>some-artifact</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>

    ... other dependencies

</dependencies>

and 1)

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3</version>
            <configuration>
                <artifactSet>
                    <includes>
                        <include>*:*</include>
                    </includes>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>com.example:some-artifact</exclude>
                    </excludes>
                </artifactSet>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>shade</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

or 2)

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3</version>
            <configuration>
                <artifactSet>
                    <includes>
                        <include>*:*</include>
                    </includes>
                </artifactSet>
                <filters>
                    <filter>
                        <artifact>com.example:some-artifact</artifact>
                        <excludes>
                            <exclude>**</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </filter>
                </filters>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>shade</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

Those don't work.

All the transitive dependencies of com.example:some-artifact are added to the final jar.

Note that I don't want to set the scope of com.example:some-artifact to provided.

Answer 1

Run "shade" from within a profile, and mark your dependency as provided only in that profile. For example:

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>shadeProfile</id>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>com.example</groupId>
                <artifactId>some-artifact</artifactId>
                <version>1.23</version>
                <scope>provided</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
        <build>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.3</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <phase>package</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>shade</goal>
                            </goals>
                            <configuration>
                                <shadedClassifierName>shaded</shadedClassifierName>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </build>
    </profile>
</profiles>

When you run mvn -PshadeProfile package it will treat your dependency as provided (and thus omit its dependencies), and it will use the classifier "shaded" so you can use this as a dependency in other modules.

Answer 2

I tried following configuration, and it worked for me also:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <finalName>client-${artifactId}</finalName>
        <filters>
            <filter>
                <artifact>*:*</artifact>
                <excludes>
                    <exclude>META-INF/*</exclude>
                </excludes>
            </filter>
        </filters>
        <artifactSet>
            <excludes>
                <exclude>org.apache.jmeter:*</exclude>
                <exclude>com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:*</exclude>
                <exclude>com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-scala_2.11:*</exclude>
            </excludes>
        </artifactSet>
    </configuration>
</plugin>