Specifying Plugin JAR dependencies
The way in which you specify dependencies for a
plugin is identical to how you specify dependencies in an application. When a plugin is installed into an application the application automatically inherits the dependencies of the plugin.
If you want to define a dependency that is resolved for use with the plugin but not
exported to the application then you can set the
exported property of the dependency:
compile( 'org.hibernate:hibernate-core:3.3.1.GA') {
exported = false
}In this can the
hibernate-core dependency will be available only to the plugin and not resolved as an application dependency.
Overriding Plugin JAR Dependencies in Your Application
If a plugin is using a JAR which conflicts with another plugin, or an application dependency then you can override how a plugin resolves its dependencies inside an application using the
plugin method:
plugin("hibernate") {
compile( 'org.hibernate:hibernate-core:3.3.1.GA') {
excludes 'ehcache', 'xml-apis', 'commons-logging'
}
compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-annotations:3.4.0.GA',
'org.hibernate:hibernate-commons-annotations:3.3.0.ga' runtime 'javassist:javassist:3.4.GA'
}In this case the application is controlling how the
hibernate plugin resolves dependencies and not the
hibernate plugin. If you wish to simply exclude a single dependency resolved by a plugin then you can do so:
plugin("hibernate") {
runtime "cglib:cglib-nodep:2.1_3"
excludes 'javassist:javassist:3.4.GA'
}