how to exclude transitive dependencies using gradl...

# gradle

[Omkar Amberkar]

how to exclude transitive dependencies using gradle plugin? I am doing add("implementation", project.lib("androidx.compose.constraintlayout")) but want to exclude certain transitive dependencies

[Vampire]

What is project.lib(...) and more importantly, what does it return, and why don't you use version catalogs?

[Omkar Amberkar]

the project.lib is part of an extension function that uses version catelog

[Vampire]

Ah, ok, so what does it return?

[Omkar Amberkar]

Provider<MinimalExternalModuleDependency>

[Vampire]

Hm, it seems there is an overload missing for add that takes a provider and a configuration for an external module dependency. You should probably open an issue or PR for it if there is none yet.

[Vampire]

You can work-around it by
add("implementation", project.lib("androidx.compose.constraintlayout").get()) { ... }

[Vampire]

Or by

val implementation by configurations.getting
implementation(project.lib("androidx.compose.constraintlayout")) { ... }

[Omkar Amberkar]

Screenshot 2023-04-10 at 2.46.52 PM.png

[Vampire]

Import the right add function?

[Vampire]

org.gradle.kotlin.dsl.add

[Omkar Amberkar]

the add is a DependencyHandler function

[Omkar Amberkar]

Screenshot 2023-04-10 at 2.49.19 PM.png

[Vampire]

The wrong one, yes