Is there a way to mark all files coming from a dep...

# gradle

[Kev]

Is there a way to mark all files coming from a dependency as @Deprecated?

[hfhbd]

What do you mean with files coming from a dependency? Why do you want to change the lifecycle of a dependency? 🤔

[Kev]

I want to stop using a specific dependency, by starting of by deprecating everything that uses that dependency

[Kev]

This avoids he whole “remove dependency and everything blows up”

[Eugen Martynov]

Interesting case, but I don't know such method. If it has some static analysis (all of them are extensible) you could write a rule for checking class package and log it.

[Eugen Martynov]

But I assume you want to have IDE experience and if tool doesn't have IDE plugin then it is not achieved

[Eugen Martynov]

But at least with static analysis tool you can create a base profile and fail check if new usages are added.

[Eugen Martynov]

Maybe you can also look into https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/artifact_transforms.html

[Eugen Martynov]

And yes, if this dependency is not in core of your project you can mark wrapper classes with deprecation and slowly rewrtite them to a new dependency or approach.

[Joel Denke]

Not deprecating it but guard depend on it: https://github.com/dropbox/dependency-guard

[wakingrufus]

I use archunit for this purpose. You can test for usages of code from a package