Has anybody experience with version catalogues? I ...

# gradle

[Alexander Stark]

Has anybody experience with version catalogues?
I wonder if its' possible to declare a version and add !! to the version ref if needed.

...
[versions]
monorepo="20230101"
...
[libraries]
...
lib1 = { module = "com.lib:lib1", version.ref = "monorepo" }
lib2 = { module = "com.lib:lib2", version.ref = "monorepo"+"!!" }

I didn't find anything in the toml documentation https://toml.io/en/

[Javier]

what does !! mean ?

[Alexander Stark]

to enforce this version of lib2 even if another library uses internal another version. With that you can override transitive dependencies

[Javier]

check strict

[Alexander Stark]

E.g. lib1 uses version 1.0.0 of lib2
But you want to overwrite this in your app with version 1.0.1 of lib2

[Javier]

https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/platforms.html#sub::toml-dependencies-format

[Alexander Stark]

But with strict I'm not able to use my declared version ref, right?

[Javier]

[versions]
my-lib = { strictly = "[1.0, 2.0[", prefer = "1.2" }

[Vampire]

Besides the verbose syntax Javier showed, you can of course also use the short-hand !! syntax. But not like you did it. Declare a second version entry where either the !! or the verbose variant is used and then use that in the version.ref

[Vampire]

Aaaand have a look at the channel topic. 😉

[Javier]

that is not documented I think

[Vampire]

What is not documented?

[Vampire]

The !! or that you can use it in the version catalog?

[Javier]

the !! in version catalog

[Vampire]

There is no need to

[Vampire]

You can use any version specification in the version catalog that you can also use otherwise.

[Vampire]

It is not necessary to mention that explicitly

[Vampire]

Noone said that only plain dumb versions are supported in version catalogs

[Alexander Stark]

Thanks Björn

Declare a second version entry where either the !! or the verbose variant is used and then use that in the version.ref

That's what I already did. But I thought I could avoid the second version entry

[Alexander Stark]

Aaaand have a look at the channel topic. 😉

Thanks, you're right