How do i override spring dependency in gradle (kot...

# spring

[rajesh]

How do i override spring dependency in gradle (kotlin) file?
I'm using spring boot version 2.4.4 which has 2.4.4 vesrion of spring-boot-starter-data-redis
I want to use 2.4.7 version of it and tried following lines but it's not working
implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.4.7")
it says
Could not find org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.4.7.
Required by:
project :
I've also tried adding following line to build.gradle file with no luck
extra["spring-data-redis.version"] = "2.4.7"

[Saharath Kleips]

It doesn’t look like there’s a 2.4.7 version of spring-boot-starter-data-redis. Perhaps you’re looking for spring-data-redis? The extra[…] block is how I’ve done it for other dependencies, but you could try running gradle dependencies to see if something else is bringing in the lower version?

[rajesh]

Yes, i want to use spring-data-redis 2.4.7 How should i use that?

[Saharath Kleips]

In your comment it says you tried implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.4.7") but maybe what you want is implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-data-redis:2.4.7") ?

[rajesh]

So i should entirely remove implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.4.7") ?

[Saharath Kleips]

Yeah since there is no 2.4.7 for spring-boot-starter-data-redis

[rajesh]

One last dumb question, spring-data-redis will provide all features of spring-boot-starter-data-redis correct? i mean no build failure?

[Saharath Kleips]

It doesn’t, I’m not sure how your project is structured. Perhaps you could try:

implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.4.4")
implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-data-redis:2.4.7")

I think ideally you’d want to use the extra[...] block you shared but perhaps the name is incorrect.

[Saharath Kleips]

And then run gradle dependencies to make sure everything looks 👌

[Saharath Kleips]

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/appendix-dependency-versions.html

According to this it looks like your extra block should have worked, so perhaps another dependency that is keeping the version below what you want

[Saharath Kleips]

You might need the dependency management plugin?

plugins {
      id("io.spring.dependency-management")
}

[rajesh]

I've that plugin. i've used

implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-data-redis:2.4.7")

but it still says

Could not find org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.4.7.
Required by:
    projec

[Saharath Kleips]

Right. There is no spring-boot-starter-data-redis version 2.4.7 According to https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework.boot/spring-boot-starter-data-redis the latest version is 2.4.4 so that needs to stay

[Saharath Kleips]

My suggestion was to try to declare an additional dependency, the starter (2.4.4) + the version of spring-data-redis that you want (2.4.7) if the extra thing was not working:

implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-redis:2.4.4")
implementation("org.springframework.boot:spring-data-redis:2.4.7")

[Saharath Kleips]

build.gradle.kts

build.gradle.kts

[Saharath Kleips]

gradle dependencies

gradle dependencies

[Mike]

Complete aside. I'd suggest migrating to Gradle platform rather than relying on the old Spring Dependency Management plugin. More consistent version resolution, and more intuitive, as you can use Gradle features for controlling versions rather than 'hack' of dependency management plugin.

It's documented in Spring Boot docs alongside dependency management plugin info.

[Saharath Kleips]

Do you happen to have a link? Definitely not completely happy with the dependency management plugin so would be nice to explore an alternative 😄

[Mike]

Sorry, on phone, so no. There's some info in spring docs when you goto boot gradle plugin. Newer versions show dependency management plugin, but also show Gradle platform approach. There's a great blog post that discusses it, too. Found link in another Workspace. https://nexocode.com/blog/posts/spring-dependencies-in-gradle/

[Saharath Kleips]

This is awesome, thanks for sharing again will definitely share this with my team as well